Normative Tensions - Academic Freedom in International Education (Hardcover)

The expansion of Western education overseas has been both an economic success, if the rise in numbers of American, European, and Australian universities rushing to set up campuses in Asia and the Middle East is to serve as a measure, and a source of great consternation for academics concerned with norms of free inquiry and intellectual freedom. Faculty at Western campuses have resisted the opening of new satellite campuses, fearing that their colleagues those campuses would be less free to teach and engage in intellectual inquiry, and that students could be denied the free inquiry that is normally associated with liberal arts education. Critics point to the denial of visas to academics wishing to carry out research on foreign campuses, the sudden termination of employment at schools in both the Middle East and Asia, or the last-minute cancellation of courses at those schools, as evidence that they were correctly suspicious of the possibility that liberal arts programs could exist in those regions. Supporters of the project have argued that opening up foreign campuses would bring free inquiry to closed societies, improve educational opportunities for students who would otherwise be denied them, or, perhaps less frequently, that free inquiry will be no less pressured than in the United States or Western Europe. Normative Tensions examines the consequences not only of expansion overseas, but the increased opening of universities to foreign students.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
Release date:	June 2022
Editors:	Kevin W Gray
Contributors:	Sevgi Dogan • Kevin W Gray • Yowei Kang • Sheng-Mei Ma • Sevket Benhur Oral • John Ryder • Jim Sleeper • Syd Waters • Kenneth C. C Yang
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-79362-033-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	1-79362-033-4
Barcode:	9781793620330

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