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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Priyam, Manisha

Titel

Reclaiming Public Universities: Comparative Reflections for Reforms

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book explores the nature of public universities and higher education reforms in emerging economies, with a focus on India, South Africa, and Brazil. Drawing on context-based case studies, the chapters in the volume highlight the state of public universities in the developing countries of the world with their shared colonial past and social, caste, and race inequalities. Based on comparative and multidisciplinary studies, the book provides a critical account of the policy reforms and changes on account of globalization and markets in higher education in public universities of the Global South regions. The chapters also compare methodological approaches to university reform and restructuring of public universities and higher education systems in the USA, Australia, the European Union, and India, and examine the California model, the Bologna process, the Melbourne model, the University of Delhi reforms, and engage critically with the New Public Management inspired reform policies. The book further lays the groundwork for understanding 'massification' in a contextual way, and the possibilities for expansion of scale of mass higher education through public provision. With its empirical findings and social theory analyses by global experts, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of education, higher education, sociology and social anthropology, development studies, public policy and administration, politics, political economy, and Global South studies. It will also be useful to educationists, policymakers, and civil society organizations.