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This book explores the nature of public universities and higher education reforms in emerging economies, with a focus on India, South Africa and Brazil. It provides a critical account of the policy reforms and changes on account of globalization and markets in higher education in public universities of the Global South regions.
List of contents
Introduction: Reclaiming public universities: Comparative reflections for reforms Part I: Globalization and Reforms in Local Arenas: Adaptation, Crisis, and Contests 1. Globalization in the United States: The case of California 2. Academic challenges and solutions in higher education: An Australian perspective 3. Understanding the European higher education area: The impact of the Bologna Process 4. Crisis and reforms in higher education in India: Some conceptual and methodological reflections 5. Decolonization of higher education: Opportunities and challenges of reclaiming the public university in the South African context Part II: The Indian Public University: Discursive Policy Terrains and Diverging Mission 6. Knowledge, power, and autonomy: Policy contestations in Indian public universities 7. The Indian institutes of technology: A sociology of knowledge perspective 8. Managing a university in transition: Opportunities and challenges 9. Quest for Excellence in Indian higher education: Negotiating the trade-off between autonomy and accountability 10: Recovering the ‘public voice’: Defining quality in higher education in India 11. Comparative perspectives on systems of higher education in the US and India Part III: Persisting Inequalities 12. Stratification in Brazilian higher education 13. Race-based affirmative action in Brazil’s higher education 14. What is at stake when reforming educational pathways? Theoretical reflections from South Africa 15. Radical shifts in undergraduate education in India: Concerns and challenges. Conclusion: Reclaiming the ‘public’: Reflections from reforms and universities
About the author
Manisha Priyam is Professor of Education Policy at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India. She has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, with an ICSSR fellowship award (2013-14). She has a Ph.D. in International Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include educational policy reforms, school decentralization, gender and social equity issues in higher education. Her publications include The Contested Politics of Educational Reforms: Aligning Opportunities with Interests (2015).
Summary
This book explores the nature of public universities and higher education reforms in emerging economies, with a focus on India, South Africa and Brazil. It provides a critical account of the policy reforms and changes on account of globalization and markets in higher education in public universities of the Global South regions.
