As the world turns : implications of global shifts in higher education for theory, research and practice /

As the World Turns examines two of the major problems confronting higher education in this modern world: access to higher education remains a persistent problem for disadvantaged students around the world; universities that are highly segregated by race, culture, language, nationality, or immigratio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allen, Walter Recharde (Editor ), Teranishi, Robert T. (Editor ), Bonous-Hammarth, Marguerite (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Advances in education in diverse communities ; v. 7.
Temas:
Discrimination in higher education.
Education, Higher.
International education.
Marginality, Social.
Urban poor > Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
Social mobility.
Discrimination dans l'enseignement supérieur.
Enseignement supérieur.
Éducation internationale.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Conditions sociales.
Sociologie urbaine.
Mobilité sociale.
higher education.
urban sociology.
social mobility.
Literacy strategies.
Philosophy & theory of education.
Education > Research.
Education > Comparative.
Education > Aims & Objectives.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to section one / Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth
  • The political economy of higher education / Francisco López Segrera
  • Gender and access in commonwealth higher education / Louise Morley
  • Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink : higher education access and success for black and Latino students in California, USA / Walter R. Allen, Uma Jayakumar
  • The political economy of social stratification in higher education : the situation in Japan / Akira Arimoto
  • Comparing access to higher education in Brazil and India using critical race theory / Loni Bordoloi Pazich, Robert T. Teranishi
  • Introduction to section two / Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth
  • Massification of higher education in China and Japan in the comparative perspective / Futao Huang
  • Equity and unrestricted access in the Argentine university system / Silvina Gvirtz, Betina Duarte
  • Higher education studies : toward a new scholarly discipline / Andrey V. Rezaev, Olga V. Maletz
  • Polish higher education : from state toward market, from elite to mass education / Renata Siemienska, Dominika Walczak
  • "Highway to freedom" : African Americans in World War II China, the Gillem Board, the Ledo Road and U.S. racial integration / Geraldine H. Seay
  • Introduction to section three / Robert T. Teranishi
  • Thinking styles, culture, and economy : comparing Tibetan minority students with Han Chinese majority students / Li-fang Zhang, Gerard A. Postiglione, Ben Jiao
  • Talking back to the colonial experience : creating an indigenous framework for education / Patricia Maringi G. Johnston
  • The university of the West Indies : diversity and change / Patricia Anderson, Julian Devonish
  • Accessing higher education, affirmative action and structured inequality : Indian experience / Govardhan Wankhede
  • Minority student success in southwest China : identity work and its structural supports / MaryJo Benton Lee, Li Hong, Luo Lihui
  • Introduction to section four / Robert T. Teranishi
  • Approaching diversity work in the university : lessons from an American context / Anthony Lising Antonio, Jeffrey F. Milem, Mitchell J. Chang
  • A northwest African American student center : is the support apocryphal? / Johnny D. Jones
  • Unsettling spaces : higher education institutions in the United Kingdom / Deborah Phillips
  • Practicing what we preach : racial and ethnic school composition, educational practice, and student achievement in California / Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth.

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