Implausible Dream (eBook)

The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education

James H. Mittelman (Autor)

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2017
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8808-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be "e;world-class,"e; institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions of cultivating democratic citizenship, fostering critical thinking, and safeguarding academic freedom. In the contest to raise their national and global profiles, universities are embracing a new form of utilitarianism, one that favors market power over academic values. In this book, James Mittelman explains why the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions and proposes viable alternatives that can help universities thrive in today's competitive global environment.Mittelman traces how the scale, reach, and impact of higher-education institutions expanded exponentially in the post-World War II era, and how the market-led educational model became widespread. Drawing on his own groundbreaking fieldwork, he offers three case studies-the United States, which exemplifies market-oriented educational globalization; Finland, representative of the strong public sphere; and Uganda, a postcolonial country with a historically public but now increasingly private university system. Mittelman shows that the "e;world-class"e; paradigm is untenable for all but a small group of wealthy, research-intensive universities, primarily in the global North. Nevertheless, institutions without substantial material resources and in far different contexts continue to aspire to world-class stature.An urgent wake-up call, Implausible Dream argues that universities are repurposing at the peril of their high principles and recommends structural reforms that are more practical than the unrealistic worldwide measures of excellence prevalent today.

Autor

James H. Mittelman is Distinguished Scholar in Residence and University Professor Emeritus at the School of International Service, American University. His books include Contesting Global Order: Development, Global Governance, and Globalization; Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity; and The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 4 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: academic degree • academic freedom • Academic tenure • Accountability • Accreditation • activism • alumnus • Career • Case study • Chancellor (education) • Classroom • College and university rankings • Competition • Consultant • critical thinking • Curriculum • debt • decentralization • Deliberation • Disinvestment • Economic Development • Economic Growth • economist • economy • Education • education reform • Emerging Technologies • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Faculty (academic staff) • Font Bureau • foreign policy • Funding • Global Governance • Globalization • Governance • government agency • Graduation • Guideline • higher education • Ideology • income • Institution • Intellectual • International Student • Knowledge Economy • learning • Legislation • Liberal arts education • managerialism • Market Economy • Market Value • massification • Michigan State University • Mission Statement • national security • Neoliberalism • New York University • of education • philanthropy • Philosopher • P. J. Conkwright • Policy • Political Science • Politics • private university • Privatization • Professor • Public institution (United States) • Public university • Quality assurance • Regulatory reform • Reputation • salary • Scholarship • secondary education • Seminar • shortage • skepticism • Social Science • Sociology • Strategic Planning • Students' union • Study Abroad • Subsidy • Tax • Teacher • Technology • Tertiary education • Think Tank • Trade Union • Tuition payments • Uganda • Unintended Consequences • University • University of Helsinki • University of Pennsylvania • University System • World Trade Organization • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8808-5 / 1400888085
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8808-5 / 9781400888085