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12. Visioning futures of higher education for the common good

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Title12. Visioning futures of higher education for the common good
ContributorMpine Makoe(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0363.12
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363/chapters/10.11647/obp.0363.12
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightMpine Makoe
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-10-25
Long abstractThe purpose of this chapter is not to use the visioning process to produce accurate descriptions of the future, but to help conjure up images of a desirable higher education system. This was done by engaging in the phases of the visioning process that took participants through the processes of identifying the problem, recognising the past successes, exploring the wishes of the future and constructing the vision of the future for higher education in 2050. The different phases of the visioning process provided a systematic way of coming up with common good as a visionary lens. Through this process, the values of common good were used to provide a direction to move higher education towards being accessible, inclusive, and affordable to fulfil its social justice mandate. Therefore, higher education needs to be reengineered to adapt to the good of the community it serves.
Page rangepp. 303–316
Print length14 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Mpine Makoe

(author)
Executive Dean, College Of Education at University of South Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4192-1781

Mpine Makoe is the executive dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and a Commonwealth of Learning chair in Open Education Resources/Practices. She has published extensively in open and distance learning related fields and in the futures of higher education. She worked on numerous commissioned research projects for Commonwealth of Learning, UNESCO, British Council, and the Council for Higher Education.

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