Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes

Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society

Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

319 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-44046-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings. Using eduscapes as its most important concept, this book explores the educational landscapes of individual as well as institutional actors; particularly the agential aspects of how global eduscapes are imagined, experienced, negotiated and constructed. In addition, the authors highlight the critical potential of anthropology, using this perspective as a resource for cultural critique where the Western experience and assumed ‘ownership’ of the global knowledge economy will be put into question. This comprehensive book will appeal to students and scholars of educational policy, the sociology of education and the globalization of education.

Per-Anders Forstorp is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Production at the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests center around methods and theories exploring a range of phenomena associated with knowledge production and education. Ulf Mellström is Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a social anthropologist; and has been the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Masculinity Studies since 2006.

Chapter 1. Knowledge Society as Ideology and Practice.- Chapter 2. Key Concepts and Themes.- Chapter 3. The Empirical Complexity of Knowledge Society: Material and Methodological Framework.- Chapter 4. Roots and Routes: Transnational Families and Global Horizons.- Chapter 5. Transnational Educational Mobility and the Power of English.- Chapter 6. The Gender Politics of Eduscapes.- Chapter 7. The European Union as Educscape.- Chapter 8. Becoming An Exporter of Higher Education: Positioning Sweden as a Knowledge Nation.- Chapter 9. Going Global: How to Kickstart a Global HEI. Chapter 10. Conclusion and Discussion: Toward a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 319 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Anthropology • Education • Globalization • higher education • Social Science
ISBN-10	1-137-44046-5 / 1137440465
ISBN-13	978-1-137-44046-4 / 9781137440464
Zustand	Neuware