Western Higher Education in Global Contexts

Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9798216293651
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Educational Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few decades old making this a liminal moment in the translation and development of higher education worldwide that needs to be captured. What are the challenges, opportunities, and considerations faculty encounter in classrooms in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia? How do faculty translate western higher educational principles in new contexts? Projects like the multiversity international branch campuses of Education City, in Doha, Qatar, demonstrate the interest of foreign governments in western education and training. Other collaborations, like the Yale National University of Singapore College, demonstrate a nationalistic approach, where the nation's premiere university maintains as high a profile as the invited collaborator. Such a wide range in mission and matriculation of students deserves further study. We open the conversation about the complex teaching and learning environment of American style education in a global context. Contributions include case studies, pedagogical interventions, and reflections. This volume features chapters by faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs) or institutions using western curricula, such as the worldwide, privatized American University system

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Writing Centers and Academic Professionalization in the Russian Federation
• 2 Imported Traditions
• 3 The Shadow of America on Japanese Higher Education
• 4 Writing Program Administration, Mobility, and Locality at the American University of Beirut, 1970 to the Present
• 5 The Challenges of Imagining Post-Universal Education in theGulf Region
• 6 Developing Symbolic Competence on a North American Branch Campus in Qatar
• 7 Rethinking Critical Thinking in a Non-Western Educational Context
• 8 Scaffolding Literacy at a Branch Campus of an American University in the Middle East
• Index
• About the Contributors