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Discourses of Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms

Emerging Paradigms

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Zajda

    1. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education, Australian Catholic University, East Melbourne, Australia

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  2. W. James Jacob

    1. American Fork, USA

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  • Demonstrates ideological imperatives of globalisation, and discourses of higher education reforms
  • Evaluates the nexus between globalisation, and of higher education reforms
  • Provides a timely overview of changes in globalisation, and discourses of of higher education reforms globally

Part of the book series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (GCEP, volume 27)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Discourses of Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms: Emerging Paradigms

    • Joseph Zajda, W. James Jacob
    Pages 1-17

  3. Conceptualizing Policy for International Educational Development

    • John C. Weidman
    Pages 19-33

  4. Higher Education Curriculum Reforms in Vietnam in the Era of Globalization

    • Ninh Nguyen, John Chi-Kin Lee
    Pages 35-50

  5. The University and Globalisation as a New Mediaevalism

    • Joshua Rust
    Pages 51-69

  6. Globalization, the State, and Cultural Identity: Negotiating Minority Rights in Expansion and Quality Assurance in Public University in Kenya

    • Edith Mukudi Omwami
    Pages 71-91

  7. Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education Reform in Japan: Pre and Post Covid-19

    • Aki Yamada
    Pages 93-112

  8. Global Higher Education Technology Trends and Opportunities in a Post-COVID-19 Context

    • Xi Wang, Shangmou Xu
    Pages 113-126

  9. Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education: Trends, Manifestations and Implications

    • F. M. Chipindi, Harrison Daka
    Pages 127-132

  10. Neoliberal Trends of Higher Education Reforms in China, Japan, and Korea: Catch-Up and Self-Reorientation

    • Jing Liu
    Pages 133-147

  11. Pursuing Neoliberal Performativity? Performance-Based Funding and Accountability in Higher Education in Ontario, Canada

    • Melanie Lawrence, Goli M. Rezai-Rashti
    Pages 149-167

  12. Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Higher Education in the Globalization: Neoliberal Challenges and Opportunities for Policies and Institutions

    • Weiyan Xiong
    Pages 169-177

  13. Opportunities and Challenges Under Globalization on the Higher Education Reforms in Taiwan from 2000 to the Present

    • Ya-Wen Hou, Kent Sheng Yao Cheng
    Pages 179-195

  14. Discourses of Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms: Research Findings

    • Joseph Zajda
    Pages 197-207

  15. Correction to: Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education Reform in Japan: Pre and Post Covid-19

    • Aki Yamada
    Pages C1-C1

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 209-215
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About this book

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes in the relationship between the state and higher education policy affect current trends in higher education reforms. 


Using diverse comparative education paradigms from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the chapters focus on globalisation, ideology and higher education reforms and examine both the reasons and outcomes of higher education reforms and policy change. The book analyses and evaluates the policy shifts in methodological approaches to globalisation and higher education reforms, and their impact on education policy and pedagogy. The book contributes in a very scholarly way, to a more holistic understanding of the nexus between globalisation, comparative education research and higher education reforms.

Reviews

"In 'Discourses of Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms', the 27th volume of the series 'Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research', Joseph Zajda and James Jacob present major chapters on higher education reform in the USA and elsewhere highlighting the inroads that neo-liberalism has made into policy making at higher education institutions. The chapters also illustrate the way universities have been reinventing themselves to meet the demands of a knowledge society in which corporate values of efficiency, performance and managerialism drive the agenda. What are the effects of internationalisation on higher education in the universities of today? With chapters from internationally respected scholars from around the globe, this book seeks to address the many issues of the new reality in higher education." – Professor Suzanne Majhanovich, Western University, Canada

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education, Australian Catholic University, East Melbourne, Australia

    Joseph Zajda

  • American Fork, USA

    W. James Jacob

About the editors

Joseph Zajda is a Professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus). He specialises in globalisation and education policy reforms, social justice, history education and values education. He has written and edited 45 books and over 150 book chapters and articles on globalisation and education policy, higher education and curriculum reforms. He is also the editor of the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (Springer, 2009 & 2021). Recent publications include: Zajda, J (Ed). (2020a). Globalisation, ideology and neo-liberal higher education reform. Dordrecht:  Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020b). Human rights education globally. Dordrecht:  Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020c). Globalisation, Ideology and Education Reforms:  Emerging paradigms. Dordrecht:  Springer; Zajda, J. (2018). He is an elected fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE).


Dr. W. James Jacob served for 10 years at the University of Pittsburgh as the Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education (from 2007-2017). His research interests include higher education management; indigenous education issues of culture, language, and identity as they relate to postsecondary education; HIV/AIDS multisectoral prevention, capacity building, and principles of good governance; quality assurance; organizational development; higher education strategic planning; and organizational effectiveness. His teaching interests and experience are in the areas of higher education management, strategic planning, human resource management, financial management, policy analysis, program evaluation, international development, research ethics, and organizational leadership and strategy. He is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist (2015-2020), where he offers capacity building expertise to governments on higher education leadership. He is the co-editor of two book series related to the development of comparative, international, and development education scholarship: International and Development Education (Palgrave Macmillan) and Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education (Sense Publishers). 

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