1st Edition
World Yearbook of Education 2008 Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
Introduction
Part 1: Producing and re-producing the University
Chapter 1: Welfare State in Transition: How Are Public Services Changing in Poland and Why? From a Wider ContextTowards a Case Study, Professor Marek Kwiek, Poznan University, Poland
Chapter 2: The Knowledge Bank and the Virtual University: Assisting or Obstructing Learning and Development?, Dr. Glyn Everett, Southampton University, UK.
Chapter 3: Recent Developments in Higher Education in Malaysia: Balancin Opportunity and Responsibility, Kuldip Kaur, Professor & Vice-Dean, Open University, Malaysia
Chapter 4: Seeing the university as a State, Professor Steve Fuller, Warwick University, UK
Chapter 5: Global University or Parallel Universes? Professor Roger Dale University of Bristol, UK.
Part II:Supplying Knowledge
Chapter 6: The constitution of a new global market: higher education in the GATS/WTO framework Antoni Verger i Planells, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
Chapter 7: In quality we trust – or do we?: Perceptions of quality assurance in Finland Jani Ursin, Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Chapter 8: The Strategic Management of Human Resources in Higher Education: Modernisation or Individualisation Matt Waring, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UK)
Chapter 9: Global roaming in knowledge networks: the mobile researcher as tourist, exile, explorer, stranger or hobo Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey, Monash University (Australia)
Part III : Demanding knowledge-marketing and consumption
Chapter 10: Higher Education; The new Powerhouse for Development Rajani Naidoo, University of Bath, UK
Chapter 11: The Rise of Private Higher Education in Senegal: An Example of Knowledge Shopping, Gunnar Guddal Michelsen, University of Bergen, Norway
Chapter 12: The WTO, OECD, UNESCO: the role of multilateral organizations in cross-border education and quality regulation, Gigliola Mathiesen, University of Bergen, Norway
Chapter 13: "Sea Turtles" in Shanghai: Chinese Student Circular Migrations in the Globalizing World, Wei Shen, Loughborough, University, UK
Chapter 14: Students and customers or co-owners? Chinese students in the assemblage of university reforms in Denmark, Gritt Nielsen, Danish University of Education, Denmark
Part IV: Moving-Flows and disjuncture
Chapter 15: Globalisation, Knowledge flows, and the Chinese Intellectual Diaspora, Anthony Welch, University of Sydney, Australia
Chapter 16: Global student and researcher flows: causes and combinations, directions, and disjunctures, Simon Marginson, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 17: Networks, Flows and Asymmetries of Power in Higher Education, Michael Peters, University of Illinois, USA
Chapter 18: Transnational academic mobility and identities in a global knowledge economy, Terri Kim, Brunel University, UK
Chapter 19: The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education, Bill Cope, University of Illinois USA
References
Biography
The Editors
The editorial team consists of inter-disciplinary scholars drawn from a range of base disciplines and geographical locations.
Rebecca Boden is professor of critical management at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK. Her primary focus is the management and financing of sites of knowledge creation, particularly science laboratories and universities. She has published extensively on the issues of how public management policies and practice impact upon knowledge creation and dissemination.
Rosemary Deem is Professor of Education, Graduate Dean & Joint Education Director for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Bristol University. She has done extensive research on the governance and management of higher education.
Debbie Epstein is a professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences though of South African origin. She is interested in the construction and maintenance of social inequalities and social identities. Her work on higher education and research concerns questions arising from globalisation, governance and research ethics.
Fazal Rizvi is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include: comparative and international education; higher education and policy in the Asia-Pacific; cultural globalization and education policy; postcolonial theories of identity, representation and education; global inequalities and educational policy; and international student mobility.
Susan Wright is professor of educational anthropology at the Danish University of Education. She has published widely on the globalisation and reform of higher education. She is editor of Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences.
Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem and Debbie Epstein are co-organisers, with Phil Brown of Cardiff University, of a 2006-7 seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on ‘Geographies of Knowledge/ Geometries of Power: Globalisation and Higher Education in the 21st Century’ which forms the basis for this Yearbook.
