LEADER 02669nam 22004575 450 001 996453547603316 005 20220110023848.0 010 $a1-4875-4670-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487546700 035 $a(CKB)5590000000881907 035 $a(DE-B1597)617632 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487546700 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000881907 100 $a20220110h20212022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDegrees of Dignity $eArab Higher Education in the Global Era /$fElizabeth Buckner 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2021] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) $c8 b&w figures, 9 b&w tables 330 $aPresenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner explores how apolitical external reform models become contested and modified by local actors in ways that are simultaneously complicated, surprising, and even inspiring. Degrees of Dignity documents how the global discourses of neoliberalism have legitimized specific policy models for higher education reform in the Arab world, including quality assurance, privatization, and internationalization. Through a multi-level and comparative analysis, this book examines how policy models are implemented, with often complex results, in countries throughout the region. Ultimately, Degrees of Dignity calls on the field of higher education development to rethink current approaches to higher education reform: rather than viewing the Arab world as a site for intervention, it argues that the Arab world can act as a source for insight on resilient higher education systems. 606 $aEDUCATION / Higher$2bisacsh 610 $aArab higher education. 610 $aMiddle East. 610 $aNational university. 610 $aNorth Africa. 610 $ahigher education in North Africa. 610 $ahigher education in the Middle East. 610 $aprivate university. 615 7$aEDUCATION / Higher. 700 $aBuckner$b Elizabeth, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01222528 712 02$aUniversity of Toronto Libraries$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996453547603316 996 $aDegrees of Dignity$92835452 997 $aUNISA