Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development

Taylor & Francis

Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human DevelopmentEnhancing Teaching and Learning in Zimbabwe\nAuthor(s): Patience Mukwambo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138590717, 978-1138590717\nSynopsis\nWhilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South. This book uses the human development and capabilities approach to demonstrate how quality in teaching and learning contributes to a range of benefits, such as improved wellbeing, economic outcomes, political engagement, and human capital formation amongst graduates.\n\nThe book interrogates the various dimensions of quality as well as factors that impact on the realisation of quality in universities and society at large. Recognising that measures of quality are context and stakeholder specific, the book uses the Zimbabwe.