World Yearbook of Education 1965-2008: World Yearbook of Education 2008: Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
By Unknown Author.
Description
This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the organization and practices of higher education tend to travel from the ‘West to the rest’. Thus, distinctive geographies of knowledge are being produced, intersected by geometries of power and raising questions about the recognition, production, control and usage of university-produc...
ISBN(s)
0415963788, 9780415963787
