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1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
"Presenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner explores how apolitical external reform models become contested and modified by local actors in ways that are simultaneously complicated, surprising, and even inspiring. Degrees of Dignity documents how the global discourses of neoliberalism have legitimized specific policy models for higher education reform in the Arab world, including quality assurance, privatization, and internationalization. Through a multi-level and comparative analysis, this book examines how policy models are implemented, with often complex results, in countries throughout the region. Ultimately, Degrees of Dignity calls on the field of higher education development to rethink current approaches to higher education reform: rather than viewing the Arab world as a site for intervention, it argues that the Arab world can act as a source for insight on resilient higher education systems."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 The University and the Arab World -- 2 Sorting Students, Determining Fates -- 3 The Question of Quality -- 4 Privatizing the Public Good -- 5 Internationalizing the National University -- 6 Between Knowledge and Truth -- Conclusion: Rethinking Higher Education and Development -- References -- Index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 19, 2023). |
| Subject |
Higher education and state -- Arab countries.
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Education, Higher -- Arab countries.
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Arabs -- Education (Higher)
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Enseignement supérieur -- Politique gouvernementale -- États arabes.
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Enseignement supérieur -- États arabes.
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EDUCATION / Higher.
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Education, Higher
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Higher education and state
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Arab countries
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Buckner, Elizabeth. Degrees of dignity. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487528957 9781487528959 (OCoLC)1242465374 |
| ISBN |
9781487528973 EPUB |
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1487528973 EPUB |
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9781487528966 electronic book |
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1487528965 electronic book |
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9781487546700 electronic book |
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148754670X electronic book |
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9781487528959 paperback |
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9781487528942 hardcover |
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1487528957 |
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1487528949 |
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