University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University
Taking a long-term historical and future perspective on the university is critical at this time. The university is being refashioned, often by forces out of the control of academics, students, and even administrators. However, there remain possibilities for informed action, for steering the directions that the university can take. This book maps both the historical factors and the alternative futures of the university. Whereas most books on the university remain focused on the European model,...
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Leading scholars examine the future of the university based upon historical and emerging issues and trends. Booknews Contributors from various disciplines, who have all worked as academics in the modern university to some extent, take a critical view of the current transformations taking place in universities. While they are critical of universities, they are more so of the commodification process universities are undergoing. Chapters are in sections on Western and nonwestern perspectives, alternative universities, and transformations of the university. Inayatullah is chair of the School of Futures Studies at International Management Centers. Gidley is an education psychologist and futures researcher. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1Introduction: Forces Shaping University Futures12University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation193Higher Education at the Brink314Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education415The Virtual University and the Professoriate556The Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well!697Why Pay for a College Education?798Of Minds, Markets, and Machines: How Universities Might Transcend the Ideology of Commodification919At the Edge of Knowledge: Toward Polyphonic Multiversities10510Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University11511Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future12512Civilizing the State: The University in the Middle East13713Scholar-Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University14914Internationalizing the Curriculum: For Profit or Planet?16115The Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond17516Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations18717Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps19918Consciousness-based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium20719Corporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University22120Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures235Selected Bibliography247Index251About Editors and Contributors267
\ BooknewsContributors from various disciplines, who have all worked as academics in the modern university to some extent, take a critical view of the current transformations taking place in universities. While they are critical of universities, they are more so of the commodification process universities are undergoing. Chapters are in sections on Western and nonwestern perspectives, alternative universities, and transformations of the university. Inayatullah is chair of the School of Futures Studies at International Management Centers. Gidley is an education psychologist and futures researcher. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
