What is it about?

This book sets out the theme of a world that is changing rapidly and higher education being an important agent in shaping that change through knowledge generation, transfer and innovation. The chapters in this book focus on this shaping role of higher education along a number of key areas: governance, sustainability, teaching and learning, student agency, quality and internationalization. From these different topics, this volume presents ways in which higher education helps dealing with and shaping the educational and societal changes that we are facing in the aftermath of the pandemic and challenges that we are expecting in the near future.

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Why is it important?

Amidst challenges of climate change and significant societal shifts, higher education institutions are increasingly called on to act as catalysts for societal transformation. This book considers the role of HE in helping to shape this rapidly changing world through knowledge generation, transfer and innovation.

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This page is a summary of: Shaping the World of Change, May 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004705777_001.
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