Universities and the public sphere : knowledge creation and state building in the era of globalization / / edited by Brian Pusser ... [et al.].

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Superior document:International studies in higher education
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:International studies in higher education.
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Physical Description:xiii, 261 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview of the book / Brian Pusser ... [et al.]
  • The "public" contribution of universities in an increasingly global world / Simon Marginson
  • Power and authority in the creation of a public sphere through higher education / Brian Pusser
  • The global sorting machine: an examination of neo-racism among international students and postdocs / Jenny J. Lee and Brendan Cantwell
  • Reconsidering the realities of the international student market: a perspective from Japan and East Asia / Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Hugo Horta
  • University rankings, global models, and emerging hegemony: critical analysis from Japan / Mayumi Ishikawa
  • The corporatization of national universities in Finland / Jussi Valimaa
  • Negotiating race and gender identity in the knowledge age: the case of South African universities / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
  • The broken promise of neoliberal restructuring of South African higher education / Ivor Baatjes, Carol Anne Spreen, and Salim Vally
  • Higher education and the public sphere in Angola / Ken Kempner and Ana Jurema
  • Selling out academia?: higher education, economic crises, and Freire's generative themes / Greg William Misiaszek, Lauren Ila Jones & Carlos Alberto Torres
  • Post neoliberalism: the professional identity of faculty off the tenure-track / John S. Levin, Genevieve Shaker, and Richard Wagoner
  • Chameleon's agenda: transformations of private universities within the framework of public higher education policies in Mexico / Roberto Rodriguez-Gomez and Imanol Ordorika.