Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education

by Roger King (Editor), Simon Marginson (Editor), Rajani Naidoo (Editor)

Overview

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 policy makers, and funding and governance bodies.

Contributors include: 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, M. Singh, W.G. Tierney, E. Unterhalter, J. Valimaa, M. van der Wende, J. Weinrib, D. Westerheijden, C. Ziguras

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848445857
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2011
Series:	Elgar Original Reference Series
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

PART I: GENERIC
1. Introduction to Part I
Simon Marginson

2. Imagining the Global
Simon Marginson

3. Rethinking Development: Higher Education and the New Imperialism
Rajani Naidoo

4. The University as a Global Institution
Peter Scott

5. Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and Openness
Michael A. Peters

6. Global Institutions: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Marijk van der Wende

7. Extra-national Provision
Christopher Ziguras

8. Global Institutions, Higher Education and Development
Yann Lebeau and Ebrima Sall

9. Globalization, Higher Education and Inequalities: Problems and Prospects
Vincent Carpentier and Elaine Unterhalter

PART II: CASE STUDIES
10. Introduction to Part II
Rajani Naidoo

11. Regional Responses to Globalization Challenges: The Assertion of Soft Power and Changing University Governance in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia
Ka Ho Mok

12. Global ‘Toolboxes’, Local ‘Toolmaking’: The Contradictions of External Evaluation in South African Higher Education Reform
Mala Singh

13. Globalization and Higher Education in Canada
Glen A. Jones and Julian Weinrib

14. Globalization, Internationalization and the World-class University Movement: The China Experience
Mei Li and Qiongqiong Chen

15. European Higher Education and the Process of Integration
Jussi Välimaa

16. Neoliberal Globalization and Higher Education Policy in India
Sangeeta G. Kamat

17. Globalization and Higher Education in South Korea: Towards Ethnocentric Internationalization or Global Commercialization of Higher Education?
Terri Kim

18. The Invisible Topics on the Public Agenda for Higher Education in Argentina
Marcela Mollis

19. Globalization, a Knowledge-based Regime and Higher Education: Where do Mexican Universities Stand?
Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

20. Globalization in the USA: The Case of California
William G. Tierney

21. The Strange Death of the Liberal University: Research Assessments and the Impact of Research
Mark Olssen

PART III: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
22. Introduction to Part III
Roger King

23. Strategizing and Ordering the Global
Simon Marginson

24. Governing Knowledge Globally: Science, Structuration and the Open Society
Roger King

25. Governing Quality
David A. Dill

26. Convergences and Divergences in Steering Higher Education Systems
Christine Musselin

27. The Bologna Process: From the National to the Regional to the Global, and Back
Jürgen Enders and Don F. Westerheijden

28. The Standardization of Higher Education, Positional Competition and the Global Labor Market
Hugh Lauder and Phillip Brown

29. Measuring World-class Excellence and the Global Obsession with Rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn

Index

Editorial Reviews

‘. . . the 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

[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

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