Overview
- Honors Philip G. Altbach as a founding father of the field of international and comparative higher education
- Makes a fresh examination of the current state of the field of comparative higher education, with experts from different schools of thought and academic traditions
- Contrasts some of the most important tendencies in this field
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 42)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Internationalization of Higher Education
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Regional Perspectives
Keywords
- Academic Mobility
- Academic Profession
- Commercialization in Higher Education
- Comparative Higher Education
- ESD
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Financing of Higher Education
- Globalization and Internationalization in Education
- Innovation Policies in Higher Education
- International Higher Education
- Massification of Higher Education
- Phil Altbach
- Policy Development in Education
- Reforms in Higher Education
- World-Class Universities
About this book
This book honors the academic trajectory and global impact of Philip G. Altbach, one of the most important education comparativists worldwide for over forty years. From his early writings on India and student activism to his recent work on research universities, Altbach has served as a key developer of the expansion of the field to include comparative higher education. His capacity to find, support, and gather the best minds around the world, to organize research teams in order to explore the most relevant issues on comparative higher education has earned him international recognition. His service to the field of comparative higher education is invaluable and incomparable. This festschrift contains original pieces from colleagues and former students following a twofold discussion: the most relevant topics on comparative higher education and particular Altbach’s contributions to this field of work.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Forefront of International Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach
Editors: Alma Maldonado-Maldonado, Roberta Malee Bassett
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7085-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7084-3Published: 22 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7982-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7085-0Published: 07 October 2013
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 329
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics