Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives

In this volume, the contributors consider globalization as combining a market ideology with a corresponding material set of practices drawn from the world of business. Issues of managerialism, privatization and accountability - central values in business - have become central for universities and their administrators as well. The selections in the book help to illustrate the editors' contentions that globalization presents clear disadvantages as well as benefits, and that its effect on higher education is neither likely to be uniform nor the outcomes inevitable.

In this volume, the contributors consider globalization as combining a market ideology with a corresponding material set of practices drawn from the world of business. Issues of managerialism, privatization and accountability - central values in business - have become central for universities and their administrators as well. The selections in the book help to illustrate the editors' contentions that globalization presents clear disadvantages as well as benefits, and that its effect on higher education is neither likely to be uniform nor the outcomes inevitable.

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Globalization may have superseded postmodernism as the construct du jour. Contributors from economic, sociology, and education departments reflect on how global economic and political forces have infiltrated academia. Fourteen papers address globalization as an analytical concept and local policy responses, national responses, globalizing practices, and trans/supranational institutions and mechanisms. From the perspective of the longest academic staff strike at a Toronto university, the conclusion advocates repositioning the local through alternative responses to globalization. Mercifully includes a glossary of acronyms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.