Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university

Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university / edited by Diana Rhoten and Craig Calhoun.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rhoten, Diana, Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press New York, ©2011.
Series:Columbia/SSRC book.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Research.
Public universities and colleges > Research.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Education and globalization.
sociology of knowledge.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education and globalization
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Higher > Research
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Knowledge, Sociology of
Public universities and colleges > Research
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Table of Contents:
  • The public mission of the research university / Craig Calhoun
  • Great expectations, past promises, and golden ages: rethinking the "crisis" of public research universities / Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, Diana Rhoten
  • "El central volumen de la fuerza": global hegemony in higher education and research / Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika
  • The state, the university, and society in Soviet and Russian higher education: the search for a new public mission / Mark S. Johnson, Andrey V. Kortunov
  • Public research universities in Latin America and their relation to economic development / Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles
  • When neoliberalism colonizes higher education in Asia: bringing the "public" back to the contemporary university / Ka Ho Mok
  • Challenges for higher education in Africa, Ubuntu, and democratic justice / Yusef Waghid
  • The idea of the public university and the national project in Africa: toward a full circle, from the 1960s to the present / N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
  • Rethinking what is made public in the university's public mission / John Willinsky
  • Public research universities: from land grant to federal grant to patent grant institutions / Diana Rhoten, Walter Powell
  • German universities in the new knowledge ecology: current changes in research conditions and university-industry relations / Stefan Lange, Georg Krücken
  • The micropolitics of knowledge in England and Europe: the Cambridge University IPRs controversy and its macropolitical lessons / Voldemar Tomusk
  • Playing the quality game: whose quality and whose higher education? / John Brennan, Mala Singh
  • The academic workplace: what we already know, what we still do not know, and what we would like to know / Christine Musselin
  • Cultural formations of the public university: globalization, diversity, and the state at the University of Michigan / Michael D. Kennedy.

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