Title: The university, state, and market : the political economy of globalization in the Americas
Abstract: Contents List of Tables and Figures Contributors Preface: Critical Theory, Globalization, and Higher Education: Political Economy and the Cul- de-sac of the Postmodernist Cultural Turn Raymond Morrow Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Underpinnings Chapter 1: Introduction: Globalization and Higher Education in the Americas Carlos Alberto Torres and Robert A. Rhoads Chapter 2: A World Without War Noam Chomsky Chapter 3: The University in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Democratic and Emancipatory University Reform Boaventura de Sousa Santos Part II: Findings from Particular Countries and Regions Within the Americas Chapter 4: Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Privatization as Shifting the Target of Public Subsidy in Higher Education Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter Chapter 5: Reforming the Reforms: Transformation and Crisis in Latin American and Caribbean Universities Atilio Alberto Boron Chapter 6: Globalization and the Challenge to National Universities in Argentina and Mexico Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Andrea Brewster Chapter 7: Latin American Identities in Transition: A Diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian Universities Marcela Mollis Chapter 8: Brazil's Local Solutions to Global Problems Ken Kempner and Ana Loureiro Jurema Chapter 9: Mexico's Estimulos: Faculty Compensation Based on Piece-Work Estela Mara Bensimon and Imanol Ordorika Chapter 10: Graduate Student Unionization as a Postindustrial Social Movement: Identity, Ideology, and the Contested US Academy Robert A. Rhoads and Gary Rhoades Part III: Concluding Analyses Chapter 11: The Political Economy of Higher Education in the Time of Global Markets: Whither the Social Responsibility of the University? Daniel Schugurensky Chapter 12: The Global Economy, the State, Social Movements, and the University: Concluding Remarks and an Agenda for Action Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres References Index
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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