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This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between
higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher
education is a significant arena for regional and international
transformation as well as domestic political struggle replete with
unequal power relations. This volume shows: The causes and impacts
of recent transformations in higher education within a
transnational context; Emerging similarities in objectives,
institutional set-ups, and approaches taking place within higher
education institutions across different world regions; The
asymmetrical relations between various kinds of institutional,
commercial and state actors across borders; The extent to which
historical and colonial legacies are important in the
transformation of higher education; The potential effects these
developments have on the current structure of international
political order. Drawing on case studies from across the Middle
East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, the contributors
develop diverse perspectives explaining the impact of transnational
politics on higher education-and higher education on transitional
politics-across time and locality. This book is among the first
multi-disciplinary effort to wrestle with the question of how we
can understand the political role of higher education, and the
political force universities exert in the realm of international
relations.
The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism
and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University
professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big
dreams—embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating
University. Lough believed that taking five hundred American
college students around the globe by ship would not only make them
better citizens of the world but would demonstrate a model for
responsible and productive education amid the unprecedented
dangers, new technologies, and social upheavals of the post–World
War I world. But the Floating University’s maiden voyage was also
its last: when the ship and its passengers returned home, the
project was branded a failure—the antics of students in hotel
bars and port city back alleys that received worldwide press
coverage were judged incompatible with educational attainment, and
Lough was fired and even put under investigation by the State
Department. Â In her new book, Tamson Pietsch excavates a
rich and meaningful picture of Lough’s grand ambition, its
origins, and how it reveals an early-twentieth-century America
increasingly defined both by its imperialism and the
professionalization of its higher education system. As Pietsch
argues, this voyage—powered by an internationalist
worldview—traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it
tried to model a new kind of experiential education. She shows that
this apparent educational failure actually exposes a much larger
contest over what kind of knowledge should underpin university
authority, one in which direct personal experience came into
conflict with academic expertise. After a journey that included
stops at nearly fifty international ports and visits with figures
ranging from Mussolini to Gandhi, what the students aboard the
Floating University brought home was not so much knowledge of the
greater world as a demonstration of their nation’s rapidly
growing imperial power.
This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between
higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher
education is a significant arena for regional and international
transformation as well as domestic political struggle replete with
unequal power relations. This volume shows: The causes and impacts
of recent transformations in higher education within a
transnational context; Emerging similarities in objectives,
institutional set-ups, and approaches taking place within higher
education institutions across different world regions; The
asymmetrical relations between various kinds of institutional,
commercial and state actors across borders; The extent to which
historical and colonial legacies are important in the
transformation of higher education; The potential effects these
developments have on the current structure of international
political order. Drawing on case studies from across the Middle
East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, the contributors
develop diverse perspectives explaining the impact of transnational
politics on higher education-and higher education on transitional
politics-across time and locality. This book is among the first
multi-disciplinary effort to wrestle with the question of how we
can understand the political role of higher education, and the
political force universities exert in the realm of international
relations.
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious
that universities operate within an entangled world of
international scholarly connection. Empire of scholars examines the
networks that linked academics across the colonial world in the age
of 'Victorian' globalization. Stretching across the globe, these
networks helped map the boundaries of an expansive but exclusionary
'British academic world' that extended beyond the borders of the
British Isles. Drawing on extensive archival research conducted in
the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa, this book remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain
and its empire. In doing so, it provides a new context for writing
the history of ideas and offers a critical analysis of the
connections that helped fashion the global world of universities
today. -- .
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