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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but for many states an important export.The history of the university reflects the decisive social transformations which have given definition and identity to both new nations and modern societies. In the post-war period, universities in the industrialized world underwent a radical shift. The mass expansion of higher education ensured that universities were no longer centers designed to train youth to assume the leadership positions held by previous generations. Instead universities were to become centers
Trade ReviewThere is much talk of a neo-liberal global knowledge economy but little analysis of its impact on higher education outside dominant centres of knowledge production. This superb edited collection redresses that imbalance and enables us to understand the neo-liberal knowledge regime as not only an economic project but also an exercise in cultural hegemony. -- John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
Table of ContentsCh. 1: Stephen Keck, Making Universities Safe for Students: Cases from Southeast Asia 1910–1925 Ch. 2: Kevin W. Gray and Hassan Bashir, The Global University in the GCC: The Transfer and Transformation of Mission and Governance Ch. 3: M. Ayaz Naseem and Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, Neoliberal Knowledge Imperialism: Education and Dominance in the Neoliberal Era Ch. 4: Jerry Logan and Janel Curry, A Liberal Arts Education: Seeking Lessons from Abroad Ch. 5: Fatima Badry and John Willoughby, State Control of Higher Education in the UAE and Qatar: Blurring the Public-Private Boundary Ch. 6: Mark Rush and Bryan Alexander, The American Vision of Liberal Education and the Challenges of Globalization: An Exploratory Inquiry Ch. 7: Michael Gow, Chinese Foreign Cooperatively Run Schools: An Examination of Officially Approved Transnational Higher Education Degree Programs in the People’s Republic of China Ch. 8: Amani K. Hamdan, The Making of World Class Universities: Saudi Arabia’s Higher Education System Ch. 9: Boufeldja Ghiat, Bologna Process and Higher Education Reforms in Algeria Ch. 10: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, MOOC and Online Learning: Opportunities and Challenges Ch. 11: John Ryder, Universities and Their Values: Higher Education in the Middle East and Beyond Ch. 12: Nancy Small, Risking Our Foundations: Honor, Codes, and Authoritarian Spaces Ch. 13: Thorsten Botz Bornstein, A Hermeneutic Answer to the Crisis of the Universities: The Problem of “Excellence” in the Global University
