Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university /

Universities Are Changing Around The World. In China and Africa there is massive expansion, while many of America's greatest public universities are experiencing major budget cuts. In Latin America universities have been affected by dictatorships and privatization but are now growing in ways ce...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rhoten, Diana, Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press New York, ©2011.
Colección:Columbia/SSRC book.
Temas:
Education, Higher > Research.
Public universities and colleges > Research.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Education and globalization.
Enseignement supérieur > Recherche.
Universités publiques > Recherche.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect social.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Éducation et mondialisation.
sociology of knowledge.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education and globalization
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Higher > Research
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Knowledge, Sociology of
Public universities and colleges > Research
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The public mission of the research university / Craig Calhoun
  • Great expectations, past promises, and golden ages: rethinking the "crisis" of public research universities / Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, Diana Rhoten
  • "El central volumen de la fuerza": global hegemony in higher education and research / Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika
  • The state, the university, and society in Soviet and Russian higher education: the search for a new public mission / Mark S. Johnson, Andrey V. Kortunov
  • Public research universities in Latin America and their relation to economic development / Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles
  • When neoliberalism colonizes higher education in Asia: bringing the "public" back to the contemporary university / Ka Ho Mok
  • Challenges for higher education in Africa, Ubuntu, and democratic justice / Yusef Waghid
  • The idea of the public university and the national project in Africa: toward a full circle, from the 1960s to the present / N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
  • Rethinking what is made public in the university's public mission / John Willinsky
  • Public research universities: from land grant to federal grant to patent grant institutions / Diana Rhoten, Walter Powell
  • German universities in the new knowledge ecology: current changes in research conditions and university-industry relations / Stefan Lange, Georg Krücken
  • The micropolitics of knowledge in England and Europe: the Cambridge University IPRs controversy and its macropolitical lessons / Voldemar Tomusk
  • Playing the quality game: whose quality and whose higher education? / John Brennan, Mala Singh
  • The academic workplace: what we already know, what we still do not know, and what we would like to know / Christine Musselin
  • Cultural formations of the public university: globalization, diversity, and the state at the University of Michigan / Michael D. Kennedy.

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