Normative Tensions - Academic Freedom in International Education

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Kevin W. Gray - Contributions by Sevgi Dogan; Kevin W. Gray; Yowei Kang; Sheng-mei Ma; Sevket Benhür Oral; John Ryder; Jim Sleeper; Syd Waters and Kenneth C. C. Yang Klappentext This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north. Zusammenfassung This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Kevin W. Gray Chapter 1: Academic Freedom in Xi's China: A Text Mining Study of Cultural Contestations by Kenneth C. C. Yang and Yowei Kang Chapter 2: The Interaction of Academic Freedom and State Sovereignty by Syd Waters Chapter 3: Higher Education in Turkey: Academic Freedom and Resistance by Sevgi Döan Chapter 4: Is Philosophical Thinking Possible in Higher Education in the American(-style) Universities in the GCC? By Sevket Benhur Oral Chapter 5: An MSU-within-MSU: Mandarin-Speaking Undergraduates Writing "Chinglish" by Sheng-Mei Ma Chapter 6: Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies by Jim Sleeper Chapter 7: Academic Freedom and the Social Context of Universities by John Ryder

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• Authors: Kevin W. Gray
• Assisted by: Kevin W. Gray (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781793620330
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-033-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, International Relations, Political Economy, Society and culture: general, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Central / national / federal government policies, Higher education, tertiary education, Central government policies