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Knowledge Matters - The Public Mission of the Research University

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Informationen zum Autor Diana Rhoten is the founder and director of the Knowledge Institutions program and the Digital Media and Learning project at the Social Science Research Council. She has published in a range of academic journals and advises cultural! scientific! and educational institutions on issues of organizational design! creative collaboration! and adaptive change. Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. He has served in a variety of academic leadership positions! including as a dean! and has conducted research in many international settings. His most recent book is an edited collection! Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science. Klappentext Reporting from Asia! Africa! Europe! Latin America and North America! scholars confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agendas. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceDiana Rhoten and Craig Calhoun1. The Public Mission of the Research UniversityCraig Calhoun2. Great Expectations! Past Promises! and Golden Ages: Rethinking the "Crisis" of Public Research UniversitiesGustavo E. Fischman! Sarah E. Igo! and Diana R. Rhoten3. "El central volumen de la fuerza": Global Hegemony in Higher Education and ResearchSimon Marginson and Imanol Ordorika4. The State! the University! and Society in Soviet and Russian Higher Education: The Search for a New Public MissionMark S. Johnson and Andrey V. Kortunov5. Public Research Universities in Latin America and Their Relation to Economic DevelopmentJuan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Pablo Ruiz-Napoles6. When Neoliberalism Colonizes Higher Education in Asia: Bringing the "Public" Back to the Contemporary UniversityKa Ho Mok7. Challenges for Higher Education in Africa! Ubuntu! and Democratic JusticeYusef Waghid8. The Idea of the Public University and the National Project in Africa: Toward a Full Circle! from the 1960s to the PresentN'Dri T. Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo9. Rethinking What Is Made Public in the University's Public MissionJohn Willinsky10. Public Research Universities: From Land Grant to Federal Grant to Patent Grant InstitutionsDiana Rhoten and Walter Powell11. German Universities in the New Knowledge Ecology: Current Changes in Research Conditions and University-Industry RelationsStefan Lange and Georg Krucken12. The Micropolitics of Knowledge in England and Europe: The Cambridge University IPRs Controversy and Its Macropolitical LessonsVoldemar Tomusk13. Playing the Quality Game: Whose Quality and Whose Higher Education?John Brennan and Mala Singh14. The Academic Workplace: What We Already Know! What We Still Do Not Know! and What We Would Like to KnowChristine Musselin15. Cultural Formations of the Public University: Globalization! Diversity! and the State at the University of MichiganMichael D. KennedyList of ContributorsIndex ...

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Authors Diana Rhoten, Diana (EDT) Rhoten, Diana Calhoun Rhoten
Assisted by Craig Calhoun (Editor), Diana Rhoten (Editor), Rhoten Diana (Editor)
Publisher Columbia University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.02.2011
 
EAN 9780231151146
ISBN 978-0-231-15114-6
No. of pages 560
Series A Columbia / SSRC Book
Columbia / Ssrc Book
A Columbia / SSRC Book
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / History, Sociology & anthropology, Higher education, tertiary education, education; history; sociology

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