Universities and Globalization Critical Perspectives

by Janice K. Currie; Janice Newson

• ISBN13: 9780761910664
• ISBN10: 0761910662
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-18
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

In this volume, the contributors consider globalization as combining a market ideology with a corresponding material set of practices drawn from the world of business. Issues of managerialism, privatization and accountability - central values in business - have become central for universities and their administrators as well. The selections in the book help to illustrate the editors' contentions that globalization presents clear disadvantages as well as benefits, and that its effect on higher education is neither likely to be uniform nor the outcomes inevitable.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Jan Currie

PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION AS AN ANALYTICAL CONCEPT AND LOCAL POLICY RESPONSES - Janice Dudley

Globalization and Education Policy in Australia - Sheila Slaughter

National Higher Education Policies in a Global Economy - Janice Newson

PART TWO: NATIONAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION - Donald Fisher and Kjell Rubenson

The Changing Political Economy

The Private and Public Lives of Canadian Universities - Arild Tjeldvoll

The Service University in Service Societies

The Norwegian Experience - Richard DeAngelis

The Last Decade of Higher Education Reform in Australia and France

Different Constraints, Differing Choices in Higher Education Politics and Policies - Jan Currie and Janice Newson

PART THREE: GLOBALIZING PRACTICES: CORPORATE MANAGERIALISM, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND PRIVATIZATION - Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich

Micro-Economic Reform through Managerialism in American and Australian Universities - Claire Polster and Janice Newson

Don't Count Your Blessings

The Social Accomplishments of Performance Indicators - Lesley Vidovich and Jan Currie

Changing Accountability and Autonomy at the `Coalface' of Academic Work in Australia - Edward Berman

The Entrepreneurial University

Macro and Micro Perspectives from the United States - Janice Newson

PART FOUR: TRANSNATIONAL AND SUPRANATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND MECHANISMS - Mick Campion and David Freeman

Globalization and Distance Education Mega-Institutions

Mega-Ambivalence - Robert Lingard and Fazal Rizvi

Globalization, the OECD, and Australian Higher Education - Janice Newson, Heriberta Casta[ti]nos-Lomnitz and Axel Didriksson

Reshaping the Educational Agendas of Mexican Universities

The Impact of NAFTA - Janice Newson

CONCLUSION

Repositioning the Local through Alternative Responses to Globalization