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