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Rethinking Private Higher Education
Ethnographic Perspectives from the Middle East and Beyond
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Edited by:
Daniele Cantini
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2017
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Rethinking Private Higher Education takes the university as a core institution in modern nation states, which is currently undergoing a serious revision. It offers fresh insights into the actual meaning of ‘private’ in different higher education contexts, contributing to a deeper understanding of the actual effects of global policies in local contexts through ethnographies. This book explores how private universities were established, their context and history, and their changing business models and operations.
The strengths of this book are its ethnographic detail, which shows the complexity and fast changing forms of private higher education, and its reluctance to jump to simplified labelling of public and private. It is a model for further ethnographic studies of local developments in higher education.
Contributors are: Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Daniele Cantini, Carmela Chávez Irigoyen, Enrico Ille, Sylvie Mazzella, Alexander Mitterle, Annemarie Profanter, and Susan Wright.
The strengths of this book are its ethnographic detail, which shows the complexity and fast changing forms of private higher education, and its reluctance to jump to simplified labelling of public and private. It is a model for further ethnographic studies of local developments in higher education.
Contributors are: Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Daniele Cantini, Carmela Chávez Irigoyen, Enrico Ille, Sylvie Mazzella, Alexander Mitterle, Annemarie Profanter, and Susan Wright.
Author / Editor information
Daniele Cantini, Ph.D. (2006), University of Modena (Italy), is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Cluster “Society and Culture in Motion”, University of Halle (Germany). He authored Youth and Education in the Middle East: Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan (Tauris, 2016).
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October 11, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9789004291508
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Keywords for this book
universities; university; private/public; public; social; analysis; Egypt; Turkey; Sudan; Germany; Tunisia; Maghreb; Chile; England; anthropology
Audience(s) for this book
The volume is of interest to social scientists interested in ethnographic analyses of private universities, and anyone concerned with the layering of public and private in the contemporary world.
