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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: University in transformation. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey 2000 (OCoLC)607413469 Online version: University in transformation. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey 2000 (OCoLC)607745352 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sohail Inayatullah; Jennifer Gidley |
| ISBN: | 0897897188 9780897897181 0275966089 9780275966089 |
| OCLC Number: | 41504402 |
| Description: | vii, 270 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Forces Shaping University Futures / Sohail Inayatullah, Jennifer Gidley 1 -- Part 1 Western Perspectives on the Futures of the University -- 2. University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation / Philip Spies 19 -- 3. Higher Education at the Brink / Peter Manicas 31 -- 4. Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education / Deane Neubauer 41 -- 5. Virtual University and the Professoriate / Michael Skolnik 55 -- 6. Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well! / Jim Dator 69 -- 7. Why Pay for a College Education? / Tom Abeles 79 -- 8. Of Minds, Markets, and Machines: How Universities Might Transcend the Ideology of Commodification / David Rooney, Greg Hearn 91 -- 9. At the Edge of Knowledge: Toward Polyphonic Multiversities / Paul Wildman 105 -- Part 2 Nonwestern Perspectives on the Futures of the University -- 10. Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University / Ashis Nandy 115 -- 11. Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future / Tariq Rahman 125 -- 12. Civilizing the State: The University in the Middle East / Shahrzad Mojab 137 -- 13. Scholar-Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University / Anne Hickling-Hudson 149 -- 14. Internationalizing the Curriculum: For Profit or Planet? / Patricia Kelly 161 -- Part 3 Alternative Universities -- 15. Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond / Ivana Milojevic 175 -- 16. Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations / Marcus Bussey 187 -- 17. Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps / Patricia Nicholson 199 -- 18. Consciousness-based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium / James Grant 207 -- Part 4 Transformations of the University -- 19. Corporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University / Sohail Inayatullah 221 -- 20. Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures / Jennifer Gidley 235. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley. |
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