Universities and the public sphere
By: edited by Brian Pusser ... [et al.].
Series: International studies in higher education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780415878470; 9780203847848
Subjects: Privatization in education; Critical pedagogy; Higher Education; Education and globalization; Cross-cultural studies; Neoliberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview of the book / Brian Pusser ... [et al.]; title: The "public" contribution of universities in an increasingly global world / Simon Marginson; title: Power and authority in the creation of a public sphere through higher education / Brian Pusser; title: The global sorting machine: an examination of neo-racism among international students and postdocs / Jenny J. Lee and Brendan Cantwell; title: Reconsidering the realities of the international student market: a perspective from Japan and East Asia / Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Hugo Horta; title: University rankings, global models, and emerging hegemony: critical analysis from Japan / Mayumi Ishikawa; title: The corporatization of national universities in Finland / Jussi Välimaa; title: Negotiating race and gender identity in the knowledge age: the case of South African universities / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela; title: The broken promise of neoliberal restructuring of South African higher education / Ivor Baatjes, Carol Anne Spreen, and Salim Vally; title: Higher education and the public sphere in Angola / Ken Kempner and Ana Jurema; title: Selling out academia?: higher education, economic crises, and Freire's generative themes / Greg William Misiaszek, Lauren Ila Jones & Carlos Alberto Torres; title: Post neoliberalism: the professional identity of faculty off the tenure-track / John S. Levin, Genevieve Shaker, and Richard Wagoner; title: Chameleon's agenda: transformations of private universities within the framework of public higher education policies in Mexico / Roberto Rodriguez-Gomez and Imanol Ordorika.