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Normative Tensions

Academic Freedom in International Education

Kevin W. Gray (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
202 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2033-0 (ISBN)
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This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north.
The expansion of Western education overseas has been both an economic success, if the rise in numbers of American, European, and Australian universities rushing to set up campuses in Asia and the Middle East is to serve as a measure, and a source of great consternation for academics concerned with norms of free inquiry and intellectual freedom. Faculty at Western campuses have resisted the opening of new satellite campuses, fearing that their colleagues those campuses would be less free to teach and engage in intellectual inquiry, and that students could be denied the free inquiry that is normally associated with liberal arts education. Critics point to the denial of visas to academics wishing to carry out research on foreign campuses, the sudden termination of employment at schools in both the Middle East and Asia, or the last-minute cancellation of courses at those schools, as evidence that they were correctly suspicious of the possibility that liberal arts programs could exist in those regions. Supporters of the project have argued that opening up foreign campuses would bring free inquiry to closed societies, improve educational opportunities for students who would otherwise be denied them, or, perhaps less frequently, that free inquiry will be no less pressured than in the United States or Western Europe. Normative Tensions examines the consequences not only of expansion overseas, but the increased opening of universities to foreign students.

Kevin W. Gray is a lecturer in political science at the University of Toronto.

Introduction by Kevin W. Gray

Chapter 1: Academic Freedom in Xi’s China: A Text Mining Study of Cultural Contestations by

Kenneth C. C. Yang and Yowei Kang

Chapter 2: The Interaction of Academic Freedom and State Sovereignty by Syd Waters

Chapter 3: Higher Education in Turkey: Academic Freedom and Resistance by Sevgi Doğan

Chapter 4: Is Philosophical Thinking Possible in Higher Education in the American(-style)

Universities in the GCC? By Sevket Benhur Oral

Chapter 5: An MSU-within-MSU: Mandarin-Speaking Undergraduates Writing “Chinglish” by

Sheng-Mei Ma

Chapter 6: Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies by Jim Sleeper

Chapter 7: Academic Freedom and the Social Context of Universities by John Ryder

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
Co-Autor Sevgi Dogan, Kevin W. Gray, Yowei Kang, Sheng-Mei Ma
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 230 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-7936-2033-4 / 1793620334
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-2033-0 / 9781793620330
Zustand Neuware
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