The Internationalisation of higher education: towards a new research agenda in critical higher education studies
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Veröffentlicht: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2014
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Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record. - 12. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation: pawn or global player?Index
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: The new research agenda in critical higher education studies; 2. The structure and silence of the cognotariat; 3. Corporatisation, competitiveness, commercialisation: new logics in the globalising of UK higher education; 4. Current internationalisation: the case of France; 5. Brazilian higher education from a post-colonial perspective; 6. Soft power and higher education: an examination of China's Confucius Institutes
7. The Bologna Process as a hegemonic tool of Normative Power Europe (NPE): the case of Chilean and Mexican higher education8. The selectivity of translation: accountability regimes in Chilean and South African higher education; 9. Re-orienting internationalisation in African higher education; 10. Small world: access to higher education between methodological nationalism and international organizations; 11. Singapore: bridgehead of the West or counterforce? The s[t]imulation of creative and critical thought in Singapore's higher education policies
We are in the middle of a fundamental transformation of the global order which is challenging the supremacy of the USA, and to a certain extent of Europe, in economic and also in normative terms. The financial crisis has further accentuated this shift in the post-Cold War architecture, with emerging economies becoming an engine of globalisation. The chapters in this volume shed light on the role of higher education and its internationalisation in this context, focusing on the different regions of the world. The new role of international organisations like UNESCO is also examined. The empirical
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