The American Style University At Large

Author : Kathryn L. Kleypas,James I. McDougall
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739150207

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The American-style University at Large by Kathryn L. Kleypas,James I. McDougall Pdf

The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The contributors examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world and explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.

Author : Pratik Chougule
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004521629

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American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy by Pratik Chougule Pdf

Using prominent American-style universities as case studies, American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy explores how these institutions relate to U.S. foreign policy interests and how this relationship has evolved from the mid-19th century to today.

Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137528698

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The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015 by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Pdf

This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also profound shifts in the financing and economic role of higher education reflected in the processes of privatization of universities and curricula realignments to meet the shifting demands of the economy. Moreover, the systems of knowledge production, organization, dissemination, and consumption, as well as the disciplinary architecture of knowledge underwent significant changes. Internationalization emerged as one of the defining features of higher education, which engendered new modes, rationales, and practices of collaboration, competition, comparison, and commercialization. External and internal pressures for accountability and higher education’s value proposition intensified, which fuelled struggles over access, affordability, relevance, and outcomes that found expression in the quality assurance movement.

Author : Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim Elsherif,Piers Michael Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443895460

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Challenges and Channels by Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim Elsherif,Piers Michael Smith Pdf

This book deals with the “challenges of teaching the English language and literature” in the Middle East and North Africa region, with a special focus on the Gulf countries. It consists of different articles by an international group of educators and scholars who have first-hand experience in teaching the English language and its literatures in this region. The contributors not only investigate student attitudes, cultural, political and administrative obstacles and challenges, but they also embark upon soul-searching journeys in which they examine their own attitudes, teaching strategies, cultural prejudices and preconceptions, and personal responses to their teaching environments. They also explore, from their own personal experiences, the ‘crisis in the humanities’, cultural hegemony, ethics in translation, cross-cultural encounters, pedagogical challenges, textuality, and second language acquisition, among other issues and concerns. As such, the book represents both a scholarly investigation and a colorful palette of personal experience and response to human encounters in the classroom.

Author : Ted Purinton,Jennifer Skaggs
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617978463

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American Universities Abroad by Ted Purinton,Jennifer Skaggs Pdf

Across the globe, American-style and liberal arts universities are being established. From the first, the American University of Beirut, established in 1866, to the liberal arts institutions being established in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and elsewhere in the twenty-first century, there is a clear sense of the global desire for the American approach to higher education as a way of counteracting traditional, more narrowly defined university educations. However, these universities operate in a distinctive dynamic that must learn to bridge one culture with another, and leadership of such institutions must by its nature focus on such complexities and tensions. Throughout the chapters of this book, this unique element of these universities will be better understood through the stories and experiences as presented by their presidents, provosts, and other academic leaders.

Author : Kyle A. Long
Publisher : Global Perspectives on Higher
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004425756

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The Emergence of the American University Abroad by Kyle A. Long Pdf

The American public is losing trust in its higher education institutions. Americans are increasingly divided about the purposes of a college education, with opinions split along partisan lines. The country's higher education leaders have responded with a litany of conferences, op-eds, and commissions aimed at regaining the public trust. While these efforts are necessary and important, they are more likely to be successful if supplemented with a view from abroad. The independent American university abroad is the oldest and most successful expression of U.S. higher education outside the United States. First established by Protestant missionaries in the Ottoman Empire during the U.S. Civil War, American universities abroad have since spread across the globe. Many enjoy widespread popularity in their communities and bipartisan support in the U.S.0'The Emergence of the American University Abroad' explores the development of this model as a distinctive institutional form in the U.S. higher education landscape. It traces the long history of support by American private citizens, the U.S. government, and stateside colleges and universities for these overseas institutions, and shows how leaders of American universities abroad have periodically come together to make sense of their changing environments and strategically align their messaging with potential supporters.0The author demonstrates that what is most valuable about American higher education emerges clearly when it is practiced outside the United States. While discourse about higher education in the United States and around the world has shifted unequivocally toward its conceptualization as a private good, leaders of, and advocates for, American universities abroad have been remarkably consistent in promoting their public benefits. As such, study of these institutions represents a unique opportunity to reflect on underappreciated, yet essential features of American higher education.

Author : Kerry Alcorn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773590045

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Border Crossings by Kerry Alcorn Pdf

At the dawn of the last century a shift in direction emerged among education policy-makers in Saskatchewan. Prior to 1905, the territories that would become Saskatchewan and Alberta maintained a school system largely modelled after Ontario's British-inspired system. Between 1905 and 1937 however, the shared geography and culture of the continental plains that span the border between the United States and Canada became the primary influence on education in the Canadian prairies. In Border Crossings, Kerry Alcorn examines Saskatchewan's embrace of the culture of farmer revolt and populist and progressive democratic thought that originated south of the border. He argues that as a consequence Saskatchewan education developed in resistance to eastern Canadian forms, with education policy makers - some brought in from the United States - consciously looking to their southern neighbours for direction in developing educational models. Alcorn's detailed portrait of University of Saskatchewan president Walter C. Murray and his "Wisconsin Idea," further highlight the influence of the north-south axis. A challenge to standard histories of Canadian education, Border Crossings encapsulates the development of the meaning, practice, and language of Saskatchewan education in the early twentieth century.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815731320

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Brookings Big Ideas for America by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

" An Agenda for the Nation What are the biggest issues facing the country as Donald Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress take office? Any new administration faces a myriad of issues and problems it must take on as it ascends to power. In this volume, Brookings scholars and others offer their solutions, from Ben Bernanke and Richard Bush to Richard Reeves and Dayna Matthew, from Bob Reischauer and Alice Rivlin to Robert Kagan and Elaine Kamarck, to Belle Sawhill, Doug Elmendorf, David Wessel, Bill Galston, and Carol Graham, as well as many others. These powerful essays engage and inform readers on a variety of timely, crucial issues that affect the present and the future of the United States. Much of the focus is on the threatened middle-class dream in America. On the domestic front, Brookings scholars tackle topics ranging from health care and jobs to economic opportunity and trade policy, to criminal justice and infrastructure. The alliance system, relationships with China and Mexico, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq are among the foreign policies issues addressed. "

Author : Laurence Whitehead
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801872197

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Emerging Market Democracies by Laurence Whitehead Pdf

Over the 1980s Latin America made great strides in democratization, while East Asia led the world in economic growth. Are the two converging toward a model that combines economic and political liberalization? This text examines increased scope for mutual support among aspiring democratic forces.

Author : M. Todd Bennett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807837467

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One World, Big Screen by M. Todd Bennett Pdf

World War II coincided with cinema's golden age. Movies now considered classics were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses. Through multinational research, One World, Big Screen reveals how the Grand Alliance--Britain, China, the Soviet Union, and the United States--tapped Hollywood's impressive power to shrink the distance and bridge the differences that separated them. The Allies, M. Todd Bennett shows, strategically manipulated cinema in an effort to promote the idea that the United Nations was a family of nations joined by blood and affection. Bennett revisits Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, Flying Tigers, and other familiar movies that, he argues, helped win the war and the peace by improving Allied solidarity and transforming the American worldview. Closely analyzing film, diplomatic correspondence, propagandists' logs, and movie studio records found in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the former Soviet Union, Bennett rethinks traditional scholarship on World War II diplomacy by examining the ways that Hollywood and the Allies worked together to prepare for and enact the war effort.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087905255

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University and Development in Latin America by Anonim Pdf

This book looks at the science, technology and innovation systems of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, telling the stories of sixteen university research teams from different fields of knowledge, working in very different national contexts, but having in common the experience of producing high quality scientific knowledge in their fields, while being very active in transfering their knoweldge to society.

Author : Bruno S. Frey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792384717

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Economics as a Science of Human Behaviour by Bruno S. Frey Pdf

This book champions the view that economics is a social science, and that, moreover, it may serve as a new paradigm for the social sciences. Economics is taken to be part of those sciences which deal with actual problems of society by providing insights, improving our understanding and suggesting solutions. I am aware that the way problems are addressed here has little in common with economics as it is generally understood today; most economists make strong efforts to imitate the exact sciences. Economics tends to become a branch of applied mathematics; the majority of all publications in professional journals and books are full of axioms, lemmas and proofs, and they are much concerned with purely formal deductions. Often, when the results are translated into verbal language, or when they are applied empirically, disappointingly little of interest remains. The book wants to show that another type of economics exists which is surprisingly little known. This type of economics has its own particular point of view. It centres on a concept of man, or a model of human behaviour, which differs from those normally used in other social sciences such as sociology, political science, law, or psychology. I do not, however, claim that economics is the only legitimate social science. On the contrary, economics can provide useful insights only in collaboration with the other social Vll Vlll PREFACE sciences-an aspect which has been disregarded by mathematically oriented economics.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UOM:39015077183757

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Foreign Service List ... by United States. Department of State Pdf

Series of pamphlets on countries of the world; revisions issued.

Author : Sun, Zhaohao
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522572787

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Managerial Perspectives on Intelligent Big Data Analytics by Sun, Zhaohao Pdf

Big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing work, management, and lifestyles and are becoming disruptive technologies for healthcare, e-commerce, and web services. However, many fundamental, technological, and managerial issues for developing and applying intelligent big data analytics in these fields have yet to be addressed. Managerial Perspectives on Intelligent Big Data Analytics is a collection of innovative research that discusses the integration and application of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, digital transformation, and intelligent big data analytics from a perspective of computing, service, and management. While highlighting topics including e-commerce, machine learning, and fuzzy logic, this book is ideally designed for students, government officials, data scientists, managers, consultants, analysts, IT specialists, academicians, researchers, and industry professionals in fields that include big data, artificial intelligence, computing, and commerce.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1954-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010972604

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Newsweek by Anonim Pdf