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Higher Education in Small Islands : Challenging the Geographies of Centrality and Remoteness.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Rosie.
- Series:
- Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Pinpointing the intersecting concerns of higher education studies and island studies, this book interrogates the role of higher education development in addressing common small island concerns. It demonstrates how small island contexts disrupt normative discourses, understandings and practices in education policy, curricula and experiences.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Seies page
- Higher Education in Small Islands: Challenging the Geographies of Centrality and Remoteness
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Some Random Reflections on Higher Education Institutions in Small Islands by Godfrey Baldacchino
- 1 Introduction
- Why look at higher education in small islands?
- The lens of the small island
- Beyond the small state
- Higher education and the small island
- Issues of scale
- Global systems and internationalization
- Book structure
- References
- Part I Scale, Smallness and Higher Education Development
- 2 Small but Complex: The Governance and Management of Public Higher Education Institutions - the Case of Malta
- Introduction
- Adopted methodology
- Smallness, island states and higher education
- Small is not always small: the importance of contextualizing the findings
- Favourable conditions emanating from smallness
- Unfavourable conditions related to smallness
- Towards a framework
- Conclusion
- 3 Underdeveloped, Frontier and Outermost: Small Island Universities in Indonesia
- The current state of Indonesian higher education
- The development of the system: historical legacy
- Methodology
- Small island universities in Indonesia
- Limited connectivity
- Socio-spatial inequalities
- Marginalization in higher education policies
- Socioeconomic impacts
- Summary
- The future of small island universities
- 4 The Perceived Quality of Higher Education in Oceania: Autoethnographic Insights from the Regional University of the South Pacific
- The quality of Oceanian universities: a critical literature review
- Aim, methodology and positionality.
- Research context: the University of the South Pacific
- Traversing the University of the South Pacific
- 'Inside-out'
- 'Outside-in'
- Theorizing the perceived quality of the University of the South Pacific
- Notes
- 5 Island Higher Education and Youth Migration: Retention, Attraction or Rotation?
- Higher education in Orkney and Shetland
- Regional interests and future developments
- Is higher education expansion the answer?
- Thinking beyond 'the region'
- Specialisms and generalisms: intersecting labour and educational markets
- Student mobilities
- Learning from student experiences in Orkney and Shetland
- On-island higher education
- Occupational and educational structures
- Discussion
- Part II Global Contexts for Island Higher Education
- 6 What Does Internationalization in Isolation Mean for Higher Education in Small Island States?
- Literature review: internationalization, isolation and small islands
- Case study: internationalization of University Consortium of Small Island States universities
- Internationalization challenges
- Internationalization opportunities
- Internationalization strategies
- Visibility through rankings
- Mobility
- Internationalization at home
- Relevant collaboration
- 7 Insularity and Internationalization: The Case of Mauritius
- The Mauritius context
- Higher education in Mauritius: a snapshot
- Internationalization in higher education in Mauritius
- Approaches and drivers of internationalization in Mauritius
- Implementation of national strategic plans
- Setting up an enabling regulatory environment
- Internationalization as mobility of providers, programmes and students.
- Internationalization in the private higher education sector through International Programme and Provider Mobility
- Internationalization through partnership programmes between public higher education institutions and international institutions
- Internationalization leading to increase in access to higher education
- Internationalization in the context of coloniality
- Note
- 8 Glocalizing Higher Education and Decolonial Work in Oceania
- Higher education, neoliberalism and the knowledge economy
- Post-secondary education in Tonga
- Decoloniality, decolonial work and Pacific Studies
- Methods
- Va theory of relations/connections
- Glocalization as relations/connections across time
- Global-local concern: think global, act local
- Talatalanoa of higher education
- Global ties and tensions
- Regional interrelations
- Ethics of va relations
- Local framings
- Strength in partnership
- Mobilities
- 9 Conclusions
- Understanding small islands
- 'Smallness' - or the importance of scale
- 'Islandness': connections and interconnections
- Reconceptualizing higher education for small islands
- Internationalization
- Quality
- Curricula - and the purposes of higher education
- Looking to the future of island higher education scholarship
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781529226539
- 1529226538
- 9781529226522
- 152922652X
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