As the world turns implications of global shifts in higher education for theory, research and practice

As the World Turns" examines two of the major problems confronting higher education in this modern world: access to higher education remains a persistent problem for disadvantaged students around the world; universities that are highly segregated by race, culture, language, nationality, or immi...

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Other Authors Allen, Walter R., Teranishi, Robert T., Bonous-Hammarth, Marguerite
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
SeriesAdvances in education in diverse communities ; v. 7.
Subjects
Discrimination in higher education.
Education, Higher.
International education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780526416
ISSN1479-358X ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-358X(2012)7
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxi, 469 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to section one / Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth
  • The political economy of higher education / Francisco López Segrera
  • Gender and access in commonwealth higher education / Louise Morley
  • Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink : higher education access and success for black and Latino students in California, USA / Walter R. Allen, Uma Jayakumar
  • The political economy of social stratification in higher education : the situation in Japan / Akira Arimoto
  • Comparing access to higher education in Brazil and India using critical race theory / Loni Bordoloi Pazich, Robert T. Teranishi
  • Introduction to section two / Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth
  • Massification of higher education in China and Japan in the comparative perspective / Futao Huang
  • Equity and unrestricted access in the Argentine university system / Silvina Gvirtz, Betina Duarte
  • Higher education studies : toward a new scholarly discipline / Andrey V. Rezaev, Olga V. Maletz
  • Polish higher education : from state toward market, from elite to mass education / Renata Siemienska, Dominika Walczak
  • "Highway to freedom" : African Americans in World War II China, the Gillem Board, the Ledo Road and U.S. racial integration / Geraldine H. Seay
  • Introduction to section three / Robert T. Teranishi
  • Thinking styles, culture, and economy : comparing Tibetan minority students with Han Chinese majority students / Li-fang Zhang, Gerard A. Postiglione, Ben Jiao
  • Talking back to the colonial experience : creating an indigenous framework for education / Patricia Maringi G. Johnston
  • The university of the West Indies : diversity and change / Patricia Anderson, Julian Devonish
  • Accessing higher education, affirmative action and structured inequality : Indian experience / Govardhan Wankhede
  • Minority student success in southwest China : identity work and its structural supports / MaryJo Benton Lee, Li Hong, Luo Lihui
  • Introduction to section four / Robert T. Teranishi
  • Approaching diversity work in the university : lessons from an American context / Anthony Lising Antonio, Jeffrey F. Milem, Mitchell J. Chang
  • A northwest African American student center : is the support apocryphal? / Johnny D. Jones
  • Unsettling spaces : higher education institutions in the United Kingdom / Deborah Phillips
  • Practicing what we preach : racial and ethnic school composition, educational practice, and student achievement in California / Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth.

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