Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857937650 ISBN 13: 9780857937650

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Higher education has entered center-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition.

The expert contributors reveal the strategies, practices and governance mechanisms developed by international and regional organizations, national governments and by higher education institutions themselves. They analyze local responses to dominant global templates of higher education and the consequences for knowledge generation, social equity, economic development and the public good.

This comprehensive and accessible Handbook will prove an invaluable reference tool for researchers, academics and students with an interest in higher education from economics, international studies and public policy perspectives, as well as for higher education policymakers, and funding and governance bodies.

Contributors: P. Brown, V. Carpentier, Q. Chen, D.D. Dill, J. Enders, E. Hazelkorn, G.A. Jones, S.G. Kamat, T. Kim, R. King, H. Lauder, Y. Lebeau, M. Li, A. Maldonado-Maldonado, S. Marginson, K.H. Mok, M. Mollis, C. Musselin, R. Naidoo, M. Olssen, M.A. Peters, E. Sall, P. Scott, M. Singh, W.G. Tierney, E. Unterhalter, J. Välimaa, M. van der Wende, J. Weinrib, D.F. Westerheijden, C. Ziguras

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Roger King, Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Bath, UK, Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia and Rajani Naidoo, Deputy Director, Centre for Innovation in Marketing and Consumption Studies, University of Bath, UK

Review:

[T]he Handbook constitutes an essential reference source for everyone interested in studying the current meaning, scope and implications of globalization. Strongly recommended. --Higher Education Review

With 29 well-researched articles written by 31 erudite scholars of high repute drawn from various parts of the world, specifically for the book, the handbook filled with intellectual ammunition provides an excellent reading on a multiplicity of issues relating to globalisation and higher education. The volume provides diversity of interpretation of several trends. Unlike many other books, the issues are studied not just from the point of view of a few advanced countries; the handbook includes experiences of many developing countries. . . The handbook would certainly be a great resource material for students, teachers and policy makers engaged in higher education. --Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857937650
• ISBN 13: 9780857937650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: King Roger, Marginson Simon, Naidoo Rajani