LEADER 04049nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910817240203321 005 20240516161442.0 010 $a1-280-65896-7 010 $a9786613635891 010 $a0-7391-5022-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000175349 035 $a(EBL)912306 035 $a(OCoLC)794909776 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000654312 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12258242 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000654312 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10659964 035 $a(PQKB)11641428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC912306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL912306 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568819 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL363589 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000175349 100 $a20110928d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe American-style university at large$b[electronic resource] /$fKathryn L. Kleypas and James I. McDougall 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham $cLexington Books$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (524 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-5020-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Mapping the American-Style University; Chapter 1 Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University; Chapter 2 American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East; Chapter 3 Soft Power Goes Abroad The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in the Arab Gulf States; Chapter 4 Out of the Open Admissions Contexts Transplanting a "Clean" American Community College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong; Chapter 5 The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U An Interview with Andrew Ross 327 $aPerforming the American-Style UniversityChapter 6 Performing the Global University1; Chapter 7 Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University; Chapter 8 Nostalgia, Performance, and Pedagogy in the American-Style University; Chapter 9 Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference Branding an American-Style University in the Arabian Gulf; Chapter 10 A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile? The American-Style University in the "Desert of the Real"; Disciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style University 327 $aChapter 11 The Borders and Limits of American Studies A Picture from Beirut1Chapter 12 Beyond These Shores An Argument for Internationalizing Composition; Chapter 13 Running Dogs and English Gods New Challenges for Taiwan's English Departments; Chapter 14 Critical Thinking, Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the American University in Bulgaria; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Contributors 330 $a"The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The contributors examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world and explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture"-- Provided by publisher. 606 $aEducation, Higher$xAmerican influences 606 $aEducation and globalization 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xAmerican influences. 615 0$aEducation and globalization. 676 $a378 686 $aEDU015000$aEDU036000$2bisacsh 700 $aKleypas$b Kathryn L.$f1964-$01629095 701 $aMcDougall$b James I$01629096 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817240203321 996 $aThe American-style university at large$93966610 997 $aUNINA