Book Search

1. Professional Education, Capabilities and Contributions to the Public Good

   The Role of Universities in Promoting Human Development

   By Melanie Walker, Monica McLean

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and social change.Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, this book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate professional capabilities...

   To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Human Development and Capabilities

   Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century

   Edited by Alejandra Boni, Melanie Walker

   Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies. Yet what is increasingly lost in the disagreements about who should pay for...

   To Be Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion

   Getting to Grips with Research in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Pat Thomson, Melanie Walker

   Series: Companions for PhD and DPhil Research

   In the contemporary world it is clear that the need to study beyond Masters Level is increasing in importance for a wide range of practitioners in diverse professional settings. Students across the world are choosing doctorates not only to become career academics, but to go beyond the academic...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion

   Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Melanie Walker, Pat Thomson

   Series: Companions for PhD and DPhil Research

   Accompanying The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion this book examines what it means to be a doctoral student in education and the social sciences, providing a guide for those supervising students. Exploring the key role and pedagogical challenges that face supervisors in students’ personal...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge