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The American-style university at large /
"The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universitie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Mapping the American-Style University; Chapter 1 Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University; Chapter 2 American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East; Chapter 3 Soft Power Goes Abroad The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in the Arab Gulf States; Chapter 4 Out of the Open Admissions Contexts Transplanting a "Clean" American Community College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong; Chapter 5 The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U An Interview with Andrew Ross
- Performing the American-Style UniversityChapter 6 Performing the Global University1; Chapter 7 Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University; Chapter 8 Nostalgia, Performance, and Pedagogy in the American-Style University; Chapter 9 Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference Branding an American-Style University in the Arabian Gulf; Chapter 10 A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile? The American-Style University in the "Desert of the Real"; Disciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style University
- Chapter 11 The Borders and Limits of American Studies A Picture from Beirut1Chapter 12 Beyond These Shores An Argument for Internationalizing Composition; Chapter 13 Running Dogs and English Gods New Challenges for Taiwan's English Departments; Chapter 14 Critical Thinking, Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the American University in Bulgaria; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Contributors