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Universities and Globalization To Market, To Market
By Ravinder Kaur Sidhu
Copyright 2006
386 Pages
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Routledge
400 Pages
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Routledge
400 Pages
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Routledge
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Universities and Globalization: To Market, To Market examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape... Read more
Contents: Preface. Prologue: Personal and Political Influences. Rethinking International Education: Place/Space and Politics. Discursive Power and Subjectivity. Globalization: Ways of Knowing. "In America's Interest." Education@UK. Australia: 'Diversity' ma non troppo. Singapore: East Meets West. Brazil: "Priority Market." To Market, To Market.
Biography
Ravinder Kaur Sidhu
"...readers of this volume will find it well referenced, with a 32 page bibliography of citation to diverse unpublished documents as well as scholarly and popular publications....tables and charts provide helpful data on international trends."
—PsycCRITIQUES, December 13, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 50"...tackles a set of substantive issues and questions that are very relevant today....The discussion of international education in the ambivalence of the postcolonial world is a most important and current topic for academic conversation."
—Carlos Alberto Torres, University of California at Los Angeles
