Life pathways as tool to improve the governance of the higher education

Autores/as

  • Jordi Planas Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
  • Edith Rivas Universidad de Guadalajara

Palabras clave:

Life Course, Student Life, Transitions, Family Responsibilities, Work

Resumen

Good knowledge of students and graduates of higher education, based on research, is one of the essential technical requirements for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) governance. The goal of this article is to present a theoretical-methodological approach, the Life Pathways, capable of capturing and analyzing the itineraries of students and graduates of higher education when their diversity is increasing and the “traditional students” have become minorities in our HEI. The case that we have presented is an illustration of three things: a) the great diversity of the students participating in the same master degree programs, b) the usefulness of the Life Pathways approach to capturing and deepen this diversity, and c) the potentiality of this approach to support the HEI governance, identifying the diversity of students present in their programs and their transitions as critical points for their management.KEYWORDS: life course, student life, transitions, work, family responsibilities

Biografía del autor/a

Jordi Planas, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, he is currently a Guestteacher at the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico). He is Bachelor of Economics and Doctor ofSociology. He is a Researcher of GRET (Research Group on Education and Labor) of the UAB, ofwhich he was director for 22 years. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Toulouse1 and La Sapienza, London and Paris-Est. He has also been Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS(France) and European Official at CEDEFOP. He is author of numerous publications.

Edith Rivas , Universidad de Guadalajara

Engineer in Electronics and Computing by the Center of Industrial Technical Education(CETI). She is a Master in Management and Policies of Higher Education, and a PhD’s student inManagement of Higher Education from the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG). She is a memberof the Equity and Occupational Mobility (ITUNEQMO) University Itineraries Research Team. Herlines of research are: education and employment.

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Publicado

2016-12-01

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Planas, J. ., & Rivas , E. . (2016). Life pathways as tool to improve the governance of the higher education . Journal of Public Governance and Policy: Latin American Review, 2(2), 5-29. Recuperado a partir de https://journalofpublicgovernance.cucea.udg.mx/index.php/jpgp/article/view/7841

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Vol. 2 Núm. 2 (2016): Journal of Public Governance and Policy: Latin American Review

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