World Class Universities A Contested Concept /

World Class Universities A Contested Concept /

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This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rider, Sharon (Editor), Peters, Michael A. (Editor), Hyvönen, Mats (Editor), Besley, Tina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices,
Subjects:
Education and state.
Education, Higher.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational sociology.
Education > Philosophy.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Higher Education.
Organization and Leadership.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Philosophy of Education.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Welcome to the World Class University: Introduction
  • Part I What's in a Word?
  • 2 Disorderly Identities: University rankings and the re-ordering of the academic mind
  • 3 Becoming World Class: What it means and what it does
  • 4 Three Notions of the Global
  • Part II World-Class Around the World
  • 5 The Kafkaesque Pursuit of 'World Class': Audit culture and the reputational arms race in academia
  • 6 Complicit Reproductions in the Global South: Courting world class universities and global rankings
  • 7 Realizing the World Class University: Litigation and the state
  • 8 World Class at All Costs
  • 9 The Paradox of the Global University
  • Part III Playing the World-Class Numbers Game
  • 10 World Class Universities, Rankings and the Global Space of International Students
  • 11 What Counts as World Class? Global University Rankings and Shifts in Institutional Strategies
  • 12 The State Role in Excellent University Policies in the Era of Globalization: The case of China
  • Part IV The Future of World-Class Universities
  • 13 The Marketingisation of Higher Education
  • 14 Contesting the Neoliberal Discourse of the World Class University: 'Digital Socialism', Openness and Academic Publishing
  • 15 Spaces of Life: Transgressions in Conceptualising the World Class University
  • 16 Realising the World-Class University: An Ecological Approach.

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