Universities, the public good and professional education in the UK

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1617-1633

  East, Linda ^a   Stokes, Rebecca ^b   Walker, Melanie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

critical pedagogy; higher education; human development; professional education; public good; purposes of education; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926202851     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2013.801421     Document Type: Article

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