Investment in Learning: The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1560008881 ISBN 13 : 9781560008880

Editeur : Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of education to contribute significantly to the reduction of inequality. In this environment, republication of an exceptionally comprehensive and judicious analysis of all that has been learned--and not learned--about the consequences of American higher education comes at a most appropriate time. Investment in Learning more fully covers the various aspects of this subject than any yet to appear. Howard Bowen is optimistic about higher education, but his viewpoint is based on profound knowledge of both the economic and social aspects of education. Unlike some economists who insist on a strict cost-benefit analysis of expenditures on higher education in relation to outcomes, Bowen argues that the non-monetary benefits are far greater, to the point that individual and social decisions should be made primarily on those broader indicators.

Cameron Fincher, in his new opening for the book, notes that "Publication of Howard Bowen's Investment in Learning was like a break in a long summer drought. . . . It was a comprehensive rebuttal to return-on-investment studies with negativistic findings." And in the foreword to the book, Clark Kerr simply says, "Howard Bowen is better prepared to survey the overall consequences of higher education in the United States than anyone else."

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À propos de l'auteur

Cameron Fincher (1927-2010) was Regents Professor of Higher Education and Psychology and director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. He wrote extensively on virtually all phases of American higher education, and in 1991 he was the first recipient of the Howard Bowen Award given by the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1560008881
• ISBN 13: 9781560008880
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 534
• Éditeur: Bowen Howard
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