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Global perspectives on higher education / Philip G. Altbach.
Van Pelt Library LB2322.2 .A484 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altbach, Philip G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Cross-cultural studies.
- Education, Higher.
- Education and globalization--Cross-cultural studies.
- Education and globalization.
- Comparative education.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 332 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, "world class" research-oriented universities. In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key forces and explores how they influence academe everywhere. Provocative and expansive, Global Perspectives on Higher Education considers how the international exchange of ideas, students, and scholars has fundamentally altered higher education. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Emergence and Reality of Contemporary Internationalization
- Tracking a Global Academic Revolution
- The Logic of Mass Higher Education
- The Prospects for the BRICs : The New Academic Superpowers?
- Internationalization and Global Tension : Lessons from History
- Globalization and the University : Realities in an Unequal World
- The Internationalization of Higher Education : Motivations and Realities
- Higher Education Crosses Borders
- The Globalization of Rankings
- The Imperial Tongue : English as the Dominating Academic Language
- The University as Center and Periphery
- Research Universities in Developing Countries
- Twisted Roots : The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education
- Comparative Perspectives on Private Higher Education
- Academic Freedom : International Realities and Challenges
- The Giants Awake : Higher Education Systems in China and India
- Academic Remuneration and Contracts : Global Trends and Realities
- Student Political Activism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421419268
- 1421419262
- OCLC:
- 921926495
- Publisher Number:
- 40025793227
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