Navigating the volatility of higher education : anthropological and policy perspectives

Applied Anthropology provides a new perspective on today's higher education environment. Volatile and unpredictable forces affect research and instruction across many sectors and levels, and global dynamics are among the strongest drivers of change. Further, within American higher education, da...

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Other Authors Foster, Brian L. (Editor), Graham, Steven W. (Editor), Donaldson, Joe F. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018.
SeriesEducation policy in practice.
Subjects
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Educational anthropology.
Educational change.
Higher education and state.
Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.
Higher education, tertiary education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607945
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-145-2
Physical Description1 online resource (308 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Anthropology of and for higher education : implications for research, policy and practice / Brian Foster, Teresa McCarty, and Tazin Daniels
  • Today's institutions of higher learning : clashing values in motion / Steven W. Graham, Joe F. Donaldson, and Michael J. Offerman
  • Gender inequality and managerialism : a self-ethnographic exploration of a woman department chair / Jeni Hart
  • Domestic and immigrant entrepreneurs : a significant disparity / Brian L. Foster
  • The situated university : political-cultural context, organizational culture, and leadership / James H. McDonald
  • Journey of creation : a photoethnographic, autoethnographic, and ethnographic look at leadership, culture, and community in a young northern New Mexico college / Florence M. Guido and Alicia Fedelina Chavez
  • Intercultural leadership : communicating for change within the academy / Ariane Schauer and Duncan Earle
  • The end of higher education : assumptions, implications, and impacts of apocalyptic narratives / Michael Wesch
  • Saving the university in Rrance / Eli Thorkelson
  • The anthropology of interdisciplinary programs in higher education / Wayne A. Babchuk and Robert K. Hitchcock
  • Race and the production of knowledge in black higher education : the legacy and contributions of Charles H. Thompson and the Journal of Negro education in evaluation / Stafford Hoodand, Rodney Hopson
  • Makerspaces as an epistemic community / Anne Larrivee
  • Concluding comments : beginning to put the pieces together / Brian Foster, Don Brenneis, Glen Davidson, and Teresa McCarty.

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