| Rethinking Private Higher Education: Ethnographic Perspectives from the Middle East and Beyond Contributor(s): Cantini |
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ISBN: 9004267395 ISBN-13: 9789004267398 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $144.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving - Education | Adult & Continuing Education |
| Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (1.05 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rethinking Private Higher Education takes the university as a core institution in modern nation states, which is currently undergoing a serious revision. It offers fresh insights into the actual meaning of 'private' in different higher education contexts, contributing to a deeper understanding of the actual effects of global policies in local contexts through ethnographies. This book explores how private universities were established, their context and history, and their changing business models and operations. The strengths of this book are its ethnographic detail, which shows the complexity and fast changing forms of private higher education, and its reluctance to jump to simplified labelling of public and private. It is a model for further ethnographic studies of local developments in higher education. Contributors are: Ay a Alemdaroğlu, Daniele Cantini, Carmela Ch vez Irigoyen, Enrico Ille, Sylvie Mazzella, Alexander Mitterle, Annemarie Profanter, and Susan Wright. |
