Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes

Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvPer-Anders Forstorp,Ulf Mellström,Ulf Mellstrom

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This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-07
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
Antal sidor319
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137440464

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Per-Anders Forstorp is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Production at the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests center around methods and theories exploring a range of phenomena associated with knowledge production and education. Ulf Mellström is Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a social anthropologist; and has been the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Masculinity Studies since 2006.

Chapter 1. Knowledge Society as Ideology and Practice.- Chapter 2. Key Concepts and Themes.- Chapter 3. The Empirical Complexity of Knowledge Society: Material and Methodological Framework.- Chapter 4. Roots and Routes: Transnational Families and Global Horizons.- Chapter 5. Transnational Educational Mobility and the Power of English.- Chapter 6. The Gender Politics of Eduscapes.- Chapter 7. The European Union as Educscape.- Chapter 8. Becoming An Exporter of Higher Education: Positioning Sweden as a Knowledge Nation.- Chapter 9. Going Global: How to Kickstart a Global HEI. Chapter 10. Conclusion and Discussion: Toward a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society