The Reorientation of Higher Education - Challenging the East-West Dichotomy

This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and academic practice are complementary elements within the process of institutional repositioning. While systems, institutions and individuals in the different contexts are subjected to similar global trends and pressures, the reorientation of higher education takes diverse forms as a result of the particularities of those contexts. That reorientation cannot be explained in terms of East-West dichotomies and divisions, but only with reference to the interflow across and within systems. Globalisation necessitates complex interconnectivities of regionality, culture and geopolitics that this book explores in relation to specific cases and contexts.

List of contents

List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Style.- Preface.- PART I: Introduction.- PART II: Supra-national Reorientations.- PART III: Regional Reorientations.- PART IV: Reorientations of Practice.- PART V: Future Orientations.- Contributors.- Index.

About the author

Bob Adamson is Professor of Curriculum Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and the UNESCO-UNEVOC Director for Hong Kong. Jon Nixon has held professional posts in four UK institutions of higher education and is currently Honorary Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. Feng Su is a Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Summary

This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and academic practice are complementary elements within the process of institutional repositioning. While systems, institutions and individuals in the different contexts are subjected to similar global trends and pressures, the reorientation of higher education takes diverse forms as a result of the particularities of those contexts. That reorientation cannot be explained in terms of East-West dichotomies and divisions, but only with reference to the interflow across and within systems. Globalisation necessitates complex interconnectivities of regionality, culture and geopolitics that this book explores in relation to specific cases and contexts. ​

Product details

• Assisted by: Bob Adamson (Editor), Jo Nixon (Editor), Jon Nixon (Editor), Feng Su (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9789400792227
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079222-7
• No. of pages: 315
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 18 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 546 g
• Illustrations: IX, 315 p.
• Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education; CERC Studies in Comparative Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; B, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Organization and Leadership, higher education, Educational strategies & policy, Social research & statistics, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Comparative education, International education, Educational sociology, School management and organization, Educational administration & organization, School administration