Description
Book SynopsisPresenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner explores how apolitical external reform models become contested and modified by local actors in ways that are simultaneously complicated, surprising, and even inspiring.
Degrees of Dignity documents how the global discourses of neoliberalism have legitimized specific policy models for higher education reform in the Arab world, including quality assurance, privatization, and internationalization. Through a multi-level and comparative analysis, this book examines how policy models are implemented, with often complex results, in countries throughout the region.
Ultimately, Degrees of Dignity calls on the field of higher education development to
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The University and the Arab World 2. Sorting Students, Determining Fates 3. The Question of Quality 4. Privatizing the Public Good 5. Internationalizing the National University 6. Between Knowledge and Truth Conclusion: Rethinking Higher Education and Development References Index
