Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Sidhu, Ravinder K. (Ravinder Kaur)

Title Universities & globalization : to market, to market / Ravinder Kaur Sidhu.

Publication Info. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xxv, 360 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education
Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-349) and index.
Contents Rethinking international education: place/space and politics -- Discursive power and subjectivity -- Globalization: ways of knowing -- "In America's interest" -- Education@UK -- Australia: "diversity" ma non troppo -- Singapore: east meets west -- Brazil: "priority market" -- To market, to market.
Summary Examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the US, Australia, and the UK. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape global education networks.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Education and globalization -- Cross-cultural studies.
Education and globalization.
International education -- Cross-cultural studies.
International education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Universities and globalization
Other Form: Print version: Sidhu, Ravinder K. (Ravinder Kaur). Universities & globalization. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006 0805849653 0805849661 (DLC) 2005047320 (OCoLC)58648005
ISBN 1410617211 (electronic book)
9781410617217 (electronic book)
0805849653 (alkaline paper)
0805849661 (paperback ; alkaline paper)