Universities Employability and Human Development 1st Edition by Melanie Walker, Samuel Fongwa ISBN 1137584521 9781137584526

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ISBN 10: 1137584521 
ISBN 13: 9781137584526
Author: Melanie Walker, Samuel Fongwa

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.

Universities Employability and Human Development 1st Table of contents:

1 Contextual and Policy Conditions
University–Employability–Employment
Higher Education for Human Development, Well-Being and Agency
Education Purposes
Tracing Key Policy Developments in South African Higher Education
The Current Higher Education Context: Policy, Participation and Funding
The Employability Research Project
What Follows
Notes
References
2 Graduate Employability, Global Shifts and Local Realities
Perspectives on What Universities Do
Higher Education and Socio-economic Development
Graduate Employability: Assumptions and Tensions
Graduate Employability in South Africa
Contextual Realities
Graduate Demand Predictors
Graduate Supply Predictors
Higher Education as/and the Public Good
Note
References
3 A Human Capabilities Conceptualization of Graduate Employability
Development as Well-Being (Individual, Social and National) and Agency
Capabilities, Agency Freedoms and Equality
Not to Neglect Functionings
‘Conversion Factors’: Education and Inequalities
Resources (Including Income)
Capital or Capabilities
Which Capabilities?
A ‘Good’ Education
Notes
References
4 Employability and Conversion Factors
Understandings of ‘Graduate Employability’
Personal Conversion Factors
Social-university Conversion Factors Influencing Employability
University Reputation
Field of Study
Aspirations
Misalignment of Theory and Practice
Extra-curricular Activities
Human Development Values as a Conversion Factor for Expansive Employability
Graduate Employability
Notes
References
5 Access and Participation
University Contributions
Enhancing Inclusive Access
Teaching and Learning
The Contribution of the Careers Office
Can Universities Do More?
Note
References
6 Democratic Citizenship and Employable Graduates
Why Citizenship When Considering Employability?
Nussbaum and Three Human Development Capabilities
Critical Examination
Global Citizenship
Narrative Imagination
‘Human Development Citizenship’: University Visions, Missions and Values
Developing Citizens: University Arrangements
Perspectives from Staff and Students: Fostering Citizenship Values
Teaching and Cultivating Citizenship
Student Agency Freedoms
Towards ‘Human Development–Citizenship’
References
7 Employers and Graduate Opportunities
Revisiting Uneven Terrain
Employers Preferred Universities
The ‘Right’ Kind of Person – Functionings Valued by Employers
Note
References
8 Aspirations, Capabilities and Navigating Future-Forward
Conceptualizing Aspirations
Empirical Student Biographies
Aspirations and Agency: Wits (Table 8.1)
Valued Capabilities
Aspirations and Agency: UFS (Table 8.2)
Aspirations and Agency: Univen (Table 8.3)
Aspirations and Agency: NMMU (Table 8.4)
Aspirations, Capabilities and Employability
References
9 Human Development, Capabilities and Graduate Employability
What Are We Going to Do About It?
Final Words
References
Appendix A Policy Environment for Graduate Employability in South Africa
Appendix B Graduate Attributes

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