Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East - Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy (Hardcover)

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but for many states an important export. The history of the university reflects the decisive social transformations which have given definition and identity to both new nations and modern societies. In the post-war period, universities in the industrialized world underwent a radical shift. The mass expansion of higher education ensured that universities were no longer centers designed to train youth to assume the leadership positions held by previous generations. Instead universities were to become centers where job skills could be imparted and knowledge produced, refined and used in the newly emerging Cold War economies, and where students could develop the skills necessary for employment in a changing world. Rather than focusing on the refinement of future leaders, the task of the university became linked to the development of economically exploitable technical knowledge. A shift of comparable magnitude is now ongoing in the nature of higher education itself. Globalization has led to the growth of knowledge communities around the world, mirroring the rise of centers for global finance in previous decades. In the Middle East and Asia the demands of the knowledge-based economy have led to the opening of new indigenous universities and branch campuses and partnerships with established European and North American universities. Education City in Qatar, for instance, has received or been pledged more than 200 billion dollars since its inception. The growth of new indigenous universities has altered the traditional role of the university further, increasing the emphasis on courses which are close to the marketplace. These new partnerships have contributed to the creation of what is now referred to as the global university.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2016
Editors:	Kevin Gray • Hassan Bashir • Stephen Keck
Contributors:	Bryan Alexander • Adeela Arshad-Ayaz • Fatima Badry • Hassan Bashir • Thorsten Botz-Bornstein • Jane L. Curry • Boufeldja Ghiat
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-2600-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	1-4985-2600-4
Barcode:	9781498526005

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