Overview
- Integrates a broad array of conceptual, theoretical and empirical analyses of The World Class University from the humanities and social sciences
- Pays specific attention to current and emerging educational competitiveness strategies in China and the Global South
- Considers different ideals and concrete plans of action for achieving a higher education system that is truly world-class
Part of the book series: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices (ENSIP)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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What’s in a Word?
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World-Class Around the World
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Playing the World-Class Numbers Game
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The Future of World-Class Universities
Keywords
- open access
- higher education policy
- global rankings and league tables
- audit culture and the university
- universities and liberal education
- mediatization and the university
- academic excellence and marketization
- higher education and performance indicators
- academic freedom
- global educational competitiveness
- world class university discourse
- academic capitalism
About this book
The growing impact of global rankings and their strategic use in the restructuring of higher education systems to increase global competitiveness has led to a ‘reputation race’ and the emergence of the global discourse of world class universities. The discourse of world class universities has rapid uptake in East Asian countries, with China recently refining its strategy. This book provides insights into this process and its future development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael A. Peters, FRSNZ is Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, P.R. China and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. He is editor-in-chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Beijing International Review of Education, and founding editor of six international journals. His interests are the intersections of philosophy, education and political economy and he has written over 100 books, including works on Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard. He was awarded honorary doctorates by State University of New York in 2012 and University of Aalborg in 2015.
Mats Hyvönen is a Media and Communications scholar at Uppsala University and research coordinator for the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program. Specializing in media history, he is interested in the vulnerability of the public sphere and how media both feed and resist that vulnerability. Mats is currently conducting research on contemporary and historical links between journalism and academic scholarship.
Tina Besley is a Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, P.R. China. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK; of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, and the Association for Visual Pedagogies. Tina is deputy editor for Educational Philosophy and Theory, associate editor for the Beijing International Review of Education and is Project Manager for PESA Agora. She is Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Past President and Founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: World Class Universities
Book Subtitle: A Contested Concept
Editors: Sharon Rider, Michael A. Peters, Mats Hyvönen, Tina Besley
Series Title: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7597-6Published: 31 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7600-3Published: 25 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7598-3Published: 31 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2570-0251
Series E-ISSN: 2570-026X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 289
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education