Universities, Employability and Human Development
Authors: Walker, Melanie, Fongwa, Samuel
Free Preview- Advances an innovative human capabilities approach to graduate employability
- Highlights the importance of paying attention to the intersections of personal, university and social conditions to enable more effective and fair university interventions for diverse students
- Brings together and explores the perceptions and experiences of diverse students, lecturers, support officers and employers
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- About this book
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The book makes a significant contribution to critical higher education studies, specifically to graduate employability research and to capabilities and education research. The book moves beyond the simplistic conception of alleged 'gaps' in graduate skills and 'mismatches' between employers and universities, and instead provides an innovative multi-dimensional and intersectional human capabilities conceptualisation of graduate employability. The book challenges an individualised notion of employability, instead locating employability issues in social and economic conditions, and argues that employability choices cannot be divorced from inequality. Qualitative and quantitative data from multiple case-study universities in South Africa are used to explore the perceptions and experiences of diverse students, lecturers, support officers and employers, regarding what each university is doing, or should be doing, to enhance graduate economic opportunities and contribute to inclusive development. The book will be highly relevant to students, scholars and researchers in the fields of education and sociology, particularly those with an interest in graduate employability.
- About the authors
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Melanie Walker is South African research chair in higher education and human development at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Samuel Fongwa is a post-doctoral fellow and researcher at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Contextual and Policy Conditions
Pages 1-28
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Graduate Employability, Global Shifts and Local Realities
Pages 29-51
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A Human Capabilities Conceptualization of Graduate Employability
Pages 53-78
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Employability and Conversion Factors
Pages 79-108
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Access and Participation
Pages 109-132
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Universities, Employability and Human Development
- Authors
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- Melanie Walker
- Samuel Fongwa
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-58452-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-58452-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-58451-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 248
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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