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Comparative higher education : knowledge, the university, and development
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Comparative higher education : knowledge, the university, and development

Author: Philip G Altbach
Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Ablex Pub. Corp., ©1998.
Series: Contemporary studies in social and policy issues in education
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Philip G Altbach
ISBN: 1567503802 9781567503807 1567503810 9781567503814
OCLC Number: 38024194
Description: xxvii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. Perspectives. Patterns in higher education development -- The university as center and periphery -- Twisted roots : the western impact on Asian higher education -- The American academic model in comparative perspective. II. Teachers and students. An international academic crisis? : the American professoriate in comparative perspective -- Professors and politics : an international perspective -- Student political activism -- Student politics in the third world. III. Exchanges : people and ideas. Gigantic peripheries : India and China in the world knowledge system -- The new internationalism : foreign students and scholars -- The foreign student dilemma. IV. Peripheral centers : the newly industrializing countries. Higher education, democracy, and development : implications for newly industrialized countries -- Higher education and scientific development : the promise of newly industrialized countries.
Series Title: Contemporary studies in social and policy issues in education
Responsibility: by Philip G. Altbach.

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