World Class Universities : : A Contested Concept.

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Superior document:Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Series
:
Rider, Sharon.
TeilnehmendeR:
Peters, Michael A.
Hyvönen, Mats.
Besley, Tina.
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2020.
©2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (289 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • World Class Universities
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to the World Class University: Introduction
  • References
  • Part I: What's in a Word?
  • Chapter 2: Disorderly Identities: University Rankings and the Re-ordering of the Academic Mind
  • Introduction
  • The Shaping of the Sector
  • The Established Order
  • The Rankings Mind-Set
  • Exquisite Tensions
  • Disorderly Identities
  • Disrupting Boundaries
  • Disrupting Time-Frames
  • Disrupting Hierarchies
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Becoming World Class: What It Means and What It Does
  • Introduction
  • Measuring Universities-A Historical Sketch
  • World Class: Theoretical Foundations and Implications
  • Can Universities be Compared?
  • Rankings and their Methodologies
  • Different Types of Universities, Different Responses
  • Conclusions: Will World Class Prevail?
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Three Notions of the Global
  • The Globalization of HE: From "Generous Mother" to Tough Competitor
  • Internationalism as Educational Ideal: The Politics of Human Perfectibility
  • On Knowing One's Place in the World
  • At Home with Reason
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • References
  • Part II: World-Class Around the World
  • Chapter 5: The Kafkaesque Pursuit of 'World Class': Audit Culture and the Reputational Arms Race in Academia
  • Introduction: The Kafkaesque World of the UK University
  • Context: Universities and the Rise of Audit Culture
  • Measurement and Quantification of Everything
  • Auditing Research Excellence: The Managerial Uses of Pseudo-scientific Measures
  • Effects of Indicators and Rankings on Academia
  • Conclusion: The Costs of Being 'World Class'
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Complicit Reproductions in the Global South: Courting World Class Universities and Global Rankings
  • Introduction
  • Essentialism and Fetishism in WCU Discourse.
  • Theoretical Frameworks
  • Syed Hussein Alatas on Complicity
  • Pierre Bourdieu on Reproduction
  • Comparative Case Studies
  • Malaysia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Selecting Strategic Partners
  • Developing Curriculum and Assessing Students
  • Sending Students Abroad
  • Evaluating Senior Leaders and Academics
  • Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: On Realizing the World-Class University: Litigation and the State
  • Tuition Fees in Sweden: A Path to World-Class Universities?
  • Case Facts
  • Did the Student and the University Enter into a Mutually Binding Agreement?
  • Did the University Breach the Contract?
  • What Are the Consequences of the University's Breach of the Contract?
  • The Juridification of Higher Education
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 8: World Class at All Costs
  • The Scandal
  • Academic Norms
  • Global Competitiveness
  • Autonomy and Excellence
  • Accountability
  • Rankings unto Death
  • References
  • Chapter 9: The Paradox of the Global University
  • Universities and Place-Making
  • Universities and Nation-States
  • Shanghai, Bologna, Abu Dhabi
  • Rankings
  • Bologna
  • Satellite Campuses
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III: Playing the World-Class Numbers Game
  • Chapter 10: World Class Universities, Rankings and the Global Space of International Students
  • Introduction
  • World Class Universities, International Rankings and Nation States
  • The Crucial Link
  • Three Research Strands: Practice, Methodology and Context
  • International Rankings: A Short History and an Overview
  • International Rankings as League Tables of Nations
  • The Dominance of the US…
  • ... of the West in General ...
  • … and of English
  • Nuances
  • Shifting Balances?
  • The Global Space of International Students
  • A Three-Polar Structure
  • Market, Colonial and Proximity Logics and Linguistic Patterns.
  • Increased Dominance of the Pacific Pole and Market Logic
  • Rankings and International Student Flows: Reinforcing Logics
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Chapter 11: What Counts as World Class? Global University Rankings and Shifts in Institutional Strategies
  • Introduction
  • Transnational Higher Education: Global University Rankings as a Policy Discourse
  • Global University Rankings and 'European Higher Education'
  • Rankings, Models and Institutions of Higher Education
  • Global University Rankings and HEIs Strategies
  • Case Selection
  • References to National and International Rankings
  • Perceptions of University Rankings and Institutional Outlook
  • World-Class or Regional University? International Excellence and Regional Needs
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 12: The State Role in Excellent University Policies in the Era of Globalization: The Case of China
  • Introduction
  • The State's Role-From Superstructure to Cultural Hegemony
  • Social Discourse, Internal Rationality and Policy
  • Isomorphism, Globalization and Higher Education
  • Higher Education Under the Leadership of President Xi Jinping
  • The Expansion of Top Universities
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Part IV: The Future of World-Class Universities
  • Chapter 13: The Marketingisation of Higher Education
  • A Framework (Not an Enframing) of the Approach
  • Building WCUs Without Watching over Them-The Technological Enframement as Marketingisation
  • Marketing and Consumerisation-The Concealment of Enframement
  • Can We Watch over Our Marketing and Enhance Our WCU?
  • What Might Be Done to Achieve Release from the Technological Control Exerted by WCUs?
  • References
  • Chapter 14: Contesting the Neoliberal Discourse of the World Class University: 'Digital Socialism', Openness and Academic Publishing
  • Introduction
  • Knowledge as a Global Public Good.
  • Digital Socialism
  • Political Economy of Academic Publishing
  • Open Access, cOAlition S, and 'Plan S'
  • References
  • Chapter 15: Spaces of Life: Transgressions in Conceptualising the World Class University
  • Introduction
  • Re-configuring the Space of the World Class University
  • Re-Critiquing the World Class University
  • Revoking the Tendency to Know the Other
  • Re-Conceiving the 'World' Within the World Class University
  • Conclusion: A Space of Life
  • References
  • Chapter 16: Realizing the World-Class University: An Ecological Approach
  • Introduction
  • Fact and Value
  • An Ecological Situation
  • Structure and Agency
  • Fact and Value-Again
  • The World-Class University: A Barren Idea
  • Re-conceiving the World-Class University
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Correction to: Three Notions of the Global
  • Correction to: Chapter 4 in: S. Rider et al. (eds.), World Class Universities, Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_4
  • Correction to: Contesting the Neoliberal Discourse of the World Class University: 'Digital Socialism', Openness and Academic Publishing
  • Correction to: Chapter 14 in: S. Rider et al. (eds.), World Class Universities, Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_14
  • Index.

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