Investment in Learning

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The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education

By: Howard Bowen (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 July 1996

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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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Non-Fiction Education Higher & Further Education Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies Organisation & Management of Education Funding of Education & Student Finance

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Foreword
Preface
The Author
Efficiency and Accountability in Higher Education	p. 3
Goals: The Intended Outcomes of Higher Education	p. 31
Cognitive Learning	p. 63
Emotional and Moral Development	p. 104
Practical Competence for Citizenship and Economic Productivity	p. 137
Practical Competence for Family Life, Consumer Behavior, Leisure, and Health	p. 189
The Whole Person	p. 219
Similarities and Differences Among Institutions	p. 236
Societal Outcomes from Education	p. 263
Societal Outcomes from Research and Public Service	p. 289
Progress Toward Human Equality	p. 325
Economic Returns on Investments in Higher Education	p. 359
Views of Social Critics	p. 388
Is Higher Education Worth the Cost?	p. 431
The Future of American Higher Education	p. 449
References	p. 461
Name Index	p. 493
Subject Index	p. 499
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