International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?
Herausgeber: Bassett, Roberta Malee; Maldonado-Maldonado, Alma

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

International Organizations and Higher Education Policy critically analyzes the impact influential organizations have at different levels of higher education policy development and implementation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415890830
• ISBN-10: 0415890837
• Artikelnr.: 45436270

Autorenporträt

Roberta Malee Bassett is currently serving as a higher education specialist with the World Bank, in Washington, DC. Alma Maldonado-Maldonado is assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Series' Editor Introduction Introduction Part I. International Organizations and the Field of Higher Education 1. Higher Education: An Emerging Field of Research and Policy
Philip G. Altbach
Center for International Higher Education
Boston College (USA) Part II. Multilateral Organizations: The Internal and External Voices 2. UNESCO: The World's Reference Point for Change in Higher Education
Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic
UNESCO
Paris (France) 3. UNESCO and Higher Education: Opportunity or Impasse? Karen Mundy and Meggan Madden
OISE
University of Toronto (Canada) 4. OECD Work on the Internationalization of Higher Education: An Insider Perspective
Tom Schuller
Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning (UK) and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin
OECD (France) 5. The OECD and its Influence in Higher Education: A Critical Revision
Alberto Amaral
University of Porto and Guy Neave
Centro de Investigacão de Politicas de Ensino Superior
CIPES (Portugal) 6. Transforming Higher Education in Developing Countries: The Role of the World Bank
Jamil Salmi
Richard Hopper
and Roberta Malee Bassett
The World Bank
Washington
DC (USA) 7. Market Multilateralism
the World Bank Group
and the Asymmetries of Globalizing Higher Education: Toward a Critical Political Economy Analysis
Susan L. Robertson
Centre for Globalisation
Societies and Education
University of Bristol (UK) 8. GATS and Education Services: Current Commitments and Future Prospects
Aik Hoe Lim and Dale Honeck
The World Trade Organization (Switzerland) Part III. Regional Actors: Africa
Asia
Europe and Latin America 9. Higher Education in Africa: The Dynamics of International Partnerships and Interventions
Damtew Teferra
The Ford Foundation
New York (USA) 10. International Organizations and Asian Higher Education: The case of China
Rui Yang
Faculty of Education
University of Hong Kong (China) 11. European Multinational Regimes and Higher Education Policy
José-Ginés Mora
Institute of Education
University of London (UK) and Juan Felix
CEGES
Technical University of Valencia (Spain) 12. International Organizations in Latin American Higher Education: Projects and Contradictions in the Post-World War II and Post-Washington Consensus Era
Ángel Díaz Barriga
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) and Blanca Minerva Torres-Olave
University of Arizona (USA) Part IV. International Aid and Higher Education 13. American Foundations and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Shifting Rationales and Strategies for Support
Jorge Balán
Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (Argentina) 14. Higher Education
Donor Organizations
Nation-States
and Development: The Public Donor Dimension in Africa
Peter Maassen
University of Oslo (Norway) and Nico Cloete
Center for Higher Education Transformation (South Africa) 15. International Organizations and Bilateral Aid: National Interests and Transnational Agendas
Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Brendan Cantwell
University of Arizona (USA) List of Contributors Index