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The Reorientation of Higher Education

Challenging the East-West Dichotomy

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Editors:
  1. Bob Adamson

    1. Dept. of International Education and Lif, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po N.T., Hong Kong

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  2. Jon Nixon

    1. University of Sheffield, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom

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  3. Feng Su

    1. Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  • Focusses on the nature of, and conditions necessary for, the transformation of higher education
  • Exemplifies the complexities of the process of institutional change across regional, national and continental divides
  • Challenges the notion of an East-West dichotomy in institutional repositionings?

Part of the book series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education (CERC, volume 31)

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Keywords

  • Australian higher education
  • Global capacity building
  • Glonacal
  • Glonacal partnership
  • Glonacal partnership strategies
  • Higher education in China
  • Higher education reforms
  • Indian higher education
  • Institutional repositioning
  • Interconnectivity of regionality, culture and geopolitics
  • Interflow across systems
  • Interflow within systems
  • Internationalisation of China's Universities
  • Process of institutional change
  • Reforms in higher education
  • Repositioning of higher education institutions
  • Transformation of Higher Education
  • Transformative learning

About this book

This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and academic practice are complementary elements within the process of institutional repositioning. While systems, institutions and individuals in the different contexts are subjected to similar global trends and pressures, the reorientation of higher education takes diverse forms as a result of the particularities of those contexts. That reorientation cannot be explained in terms of East-West dichotomies and divisions, but only with reference to the interflow across and within systems. Globalisation necessitates complex interconnectivities of regionality, culture and geopolitics that this book explores in relation to specific cases and contexts. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of International Education and Lif, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po N.T., Hong Kong

    Bob Adamson

  • University of Sheffield, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom

    Jon Nixon

  • Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Feng Su

About the editors

Bob Adamson is Professor of Curriculum Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and the UNESCO-UNEVOC Director for Hong Kong. Jon Nixon has held professional posts in four UK institutions of higher education and is currently Honorary Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. Feng Su is a Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Reorientation of Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy

  • Editors: Bob Adamson, Jon Nixon, Feng Su

  • Series Title: CERC Studies in Comparative Education

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5847-6Published: 23 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9222-7Published: 14 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5848-3Due: 14 January 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1573-6040

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-022X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 315

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