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Re-imagined universities and global citizen professionals : international education, cosmopolitan pedagogies and global friendships /

"Higher education is increasingly under fire for its overwhelming response to market considerations rather than nurturing essential human values. International higher education that attracts students from developing countries to 'world class' universities is criticized for demonstrati...

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Main Authors: George, Shanti
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Frontiers of globalization series
Subjects:
International education > Europe
Education, Higher > Europe
Education and globalization > Europe
Summary: "Higher education is increasingly under fire for its overwhelming response to market considerations rather than nurturing essential human values. International higher education that attracts students from developing countries to 'world class' universities is criticized for demonstrating inadequate civic responsibility within an unequal world. Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals enriches these debates by drawing on the narratives of 124 individuals from 27 countries who attended a school of international development studies in Europe. Such experiences can be used by univ
Carrier Form: xiii, 284 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-277) and index.
ISBN: 9781137358943 (hardback) :
1137358947
Index Number: LC191
CLC: F114.41
G649.5
Call Number: G649.5/G349
Contents: The politics of the intellect in the globalized world -- The politics of the intellect in developing countries -- Citizen professionals and cosmopolitan identities -- Cosmopolitan pedagogies for global citizen professionals -- Global friendships - hegemonic or transformative? (I) : "We were all strangers" at a school of development studies -- Global friendships - hegemonic or transformative? (II) : Global capitalism and exclusion, a new version of the "Harvard murder" -- The politics of the imagination in our globalized world.

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