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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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