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Universities and the public sphere : knowledge creation and state building in the era of globalization / edited by Brian Pusser ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International studies in higher education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects.
- Privatization in education.
- Education and globalization--Cross-cultural studies.
- Education and globalization.
- Privatization in education--Cross-cultural studies.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Neoliberalism.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction and overview of the book / Brian Pusser ... [et al.]
- The "public" contribution of universities in an increasingly global world / Simon Marginson
- Power and authority in the creation of a public sphere through higher education / Brian Pusser
- The global sorting machine: an examination of neo-racism among international students and postdocs / Jenny J. Lee and Brendan Cantwell
- Reconsidering the realities of the international student market: a perspective from Japan and East Asia / Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Hugo Horta
- University rankings, global models, and emerging hegemony: critical analysis from Japan / Mayumi Ishikawa
- The corporatization of national universities in Finland / Jussi Välimaa
- Negotiating race and gender identity in the knowledge age: the case of South African universities / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
- The broken promise of neoliberal restructuring of South African higher education / Ivor Baatjes, Carol Anne Spreen, and Salim Vally
- Higher education and the public sphere in Angola / Ken Kempner and Ana Jurema
- Selling out academia?: higher education, economic crises, and Freire's generative themes / Greg William Misiaszek, Lauren Ila Jones & Carlos Alberto Torres
- Post neoliberalism: the professional identity of faculty off the tenure-track / John S. Levin, Genevieve Shaker, and Richard Wagoner
- Chameleon's agenda: transformations of private universities within the framework of public higher education policies in Mexico / Roberto Rodriguez-Gomez and Imanol Ordorika.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415878470
- 0415878470
- 9780203847848
- 0203847849
- OCLC:
- 659750811
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