The American-Style University at Large (eBook, ePUB)

Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education
Redaktion: Kleypas, Kathryn L.; McDougall, James I.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of research on the globalization of higher education has historically been on universities within the United States. More recently, the focus has shifted to the international scene, yet there remain few published works to document this phenomenon. The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education, edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall, is an intervention into current discussions concerning the role of the contemporary American-style university in a global context. The editors approach the subject from their own experiences as professors at an American-style university in the Middle East. They pull together essays from an impressively diverse list of contributors which examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world. The authors then explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739150221
• Artikelnr.: 38228329

Autorenporträt

Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall are professors at an American-style university overseas. Contributions by: Mary A Goodwin, Kathryn Kleypas, Eng-Beng Lim, James McDougall, Patrick McGreevy, Walter Mignolo, John W. Mullen, Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton, Mary Queen, Andrew Ross, Mark Schaub, Malini Johar Schueller, Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen, Mary Ann Tétreault, Ting Man Tsao

Inhaltsangabe

  List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction
James I. McDougall Mapping the American-Style University Chapter 1
"Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University
" Walter Mignolo Chapter 2
"American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East
" Patrick McGreevy Chapter 3
"Soft Power Goes Abroad: The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in the Arab Gulf States
" Mary Ann Tétreault Chapter 4
"Out of the Open Admissions Contexts: Transplanting a "Clean" American Community College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong
" Ting Man Tsao Chapter 5
"The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U: An Interview with Andrew Ross
" James I. McDougall and Kathryn L. Kleypas Performing the American-Style University Chapter 6
"Performing the Global University
" Eng-Beng Lim Chapter 7
"Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University
" James I. McDougall Chapter 8
"Nostalgia
Performance
and Pedagogy in the American-Style University
" Kathryn L. Kleypas Chapter 9
"Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference: Branding an American-Style University in the Arabian Gulf
" Mary Queen Chapter 10
"A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile?: the American-Style University in the 'Desert of the Real
'" Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton   Disciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style University Chapter 11
"The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut
" Malini Johar Schueller Chapter 12
"Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition
" Mark Schaub Chapter 13
"Running Dogs and English Gods: New Challenges for Taiwan's English Departments
" Mary Goodwin Chapter 14
"Critical Thinking
Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the American University in Bulgaria
" Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen and John W. Mullen Conclusion
Kathryn L. Kleypas Index