International organizations and higher education policy [[electronic resource] ] : thinking globally, acting locally? / / edited by Roberta Malee Bassett and Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.1/29; 379.129
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher; Higher education and state; Education and globalization; Educational change; International agencies - Decision making; International organization - Decision making
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BassettRoberta Malee MaldonadoAlma
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Introduction; I International Organizations and the Field of Higher Education; 1 Higher Education An Emerging Field of Research and Policy; II Multilateral Organizations: The Internal and External Voices; 2 UNESCO The World's Reference Point for Change in Higher Education; 3 UNESCO and Higher Education Opportunity or Impasse?; 4 OECD Work on the Internationalization of Higher Education An Insider Perspective; 5 The OECD and its Influence in Higher Education A Critical Revision ; 6 Transforming Higher Education in Developing Countries The Role of the World Bank7 Market Multilateralism, the World Bank Group, and the Asymmetries of Globalizing Higher Education Toward a Critical Political Economy Analysis; 8 GATS and Education Services Current Commitments and Future Prospects; III Regional Actors: Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America; 9 Higher Education in Africa The Dynamics of International Partnerships and Interventions; 10 International Organizations and Asian Higher Education The Case of China; 11 European Multinational Regimes and Higher Education Policy ; 12 International Organizations in Latin American Higher Education Projects and Contradictions in the Post-World War II and Post-Washington Consensus EraIV International Aid and Higher Education; 13 American Foundations and Higher Education in Developing Countries Shifting Rationales and Strategies for Support; 14 Higher Education, Donor Organizations, Nation States, and Development The Public Donor Dimension in Africa; 15 International Organizations and Bilateral Aid National Interests and Transnational Agendas; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis to include the global drivers behind higher education policy, including a full array of influential organizations such as the World Bank, UNESCO, OECD, WTO, bilateral aid agencies and major private foundations. The significance of these organizations is especially pronounced in the deve
• Titolo autorizzato: International organizations and higher education policy
• ISBN: 1-135-85437-8; 1-282-17068-6; 9786612170683; 0-203-87666-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454873103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in higher education.