Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges

In Pursuit of Well-Being, Social Justice, and Sustainability
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-74180-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Higher Education

Visioning presents a roadmap for university leaders to vitalize higher education in response to global problems. It addresses structural, programmatic, and curricular gaps in ways designed to prepare current and future generations for unfolding socio-ecological challenges.

The book introduces five urgent and interconnected global challenges (sustainable development, climate change, migration, global health, and social justice) demanding attention from higher-education institutions worldwide. Each of these five chapters explores the challenge and then shifts focus to the needed roles of forward-looking higher-education institutions. These roles include building critical consciousness, developing competencies, inspiring global actions, exercising leadership at all levels, conducting evaluations, and undertaking innovative initiatives. The book also proposes three specific initiatives: (1) creation of linked academic Centers for Contemporary Global Challenges; (2) establishment of South-North Higher-Education Consortia; and (3) initiation of a Global Challenges Corps, supported by transnational-competence preparation. It also provides an evaluation methodology to assess the traction of the proposed educational vision. The concluding chapter offers a pathway to fill existing programmatic gaps and equip future generations to address global challenges.

This authoritative and insightful book is essential reading for university leaders, educators, and learners worldwide. It provides practical strategies and a future-preparatory vision for universities to address rising global challenges.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koehn, Peter H

Bo-Yuen Ngai, Phyllis

Uitto, Juha I

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges 2. Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future 3. Climate Change: Preparing Today’s Youths to Respond to the Quintessential Contemporary Transnational Challenge 4. Displacement and Migration: Forward-Looking University Responses to Global Uprooting 5. Global Health and Higher Education in the Wake of COVID-19 6. Social Justice Education for Contemporary Challenges: The Unavoidable Glocal Connections 7. Future Visions

Über Autor(innen)

Peter H. Koehn is University of Montana (UMT) Professor Emeritus in Political Science and a Fulbright New Century Scholar. He established UMT’s Migration Studies, Global Public Health, and International Development Studies programs and co-founded its Climate Change Studies program.

Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai is the Director of the International Development Studies Program and Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Montana and a member of the National Council on Social Work Education's Council on Global Learning and Practice.

Juha I. Uitto is an international evaluation advisor and expert focusing on evaluating at the nexus of environment and development. He is a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and past Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).