TY  - BOOK
ED  - Rider, Sharon
ED  - Peters, Michael A.
ED  - Hyvönen, Mats
ED  - Besley, Tina
AB  - This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive use and abuse of the notion of "world-class" and related terms in the discourse of quality assessment. The book includes approaches and results from fields of inquiry not otherwise prominent in Higher Education studies, including philosophy and media studies, as well as sociology, anthropology, educational theory. The growing impact of global rankings and their strategic use in the restructuring of higher education systems to increase global competitiveness has led to a ‘reputation race’ and the emergence of the global discourse of world class universities. The discourse of world class universities has rapid uptake in East Asian countries, with China recently refining its strategy. This book provides insights into this process and its future development.
DO  - 10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210113_9789811575983_6
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46100
ID  - OAPEN ID: 51297
KW  - Educational Policy and Politics
KW  - Higher Education
KW  - Administration, Organization and Leadership
KW  - Sociology of Education
KW  - Educational Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy of Education
KW  - Organization and Leadership
KW  - open access
KW  - higher education policy
KW  - global rankings and league tables
KW  - audit culture and the university
KW  - universities and liberal education
KW  - mediatization and the university
KW  - academic excellence and marketization
KW  - higher education and performance indicators
KW  - academic freedom
KW  - global educational competitiveness
KW  - world class university discourse
KW  - academic capitalism
KW  - Educational strategies & policy
KW  - Higher & further education, tertiary education
KW  - Educational administration & organization
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy & theory of education
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46100/1/2020_Book_WorldClassUniversities.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34265
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2020
TI  - World Class Universities : A Contested Concept
ER  - 
