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The university in transformation : global perspectives on the futures of the university

Author: Sohail Inayatullah; Jennifer Gidley
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey 2000.
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University in transformation.
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey 2000
(OCoLC)607413469
Online version:
University in transformation.
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey 2000
(OCoLC)607745352
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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