Title:
The university, state, and market the political economy of globalization in the Americas / edited by Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres.
Main Entry:
Rhoads, Robert A.
Torres, Carlos Alberto.
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Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Publication Date:
2006.
Publication Place:
Stanford, Calif :
ISBN:
0804751684 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804751692 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- North America.
Education and globalization -- North America.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Latin America.
Education and globalization -- Latin America.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Critical theory, globalization, and higher education : political economy and the cul-de-sac of the postmodernist cultural turn / Introduction : globalization and higher education in the Americas / World without war / University in the 21st century : toward a democratic and emancipatory university reform / Academic capitalism and the new economy : privatization as shifting the target of public subsidy in higner education / Reforming the reforms : transformation and crisis in Latin American and Caribbean universities / Globalization and the challenge to national universities in Argentina and Mexico / Latin American identities in transition : a diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian universities / Brazil's local solutions to global problems / Mexico's estÃmulos : faculty compensation based on piecework / Graduate student unionization as a postindustrial social movement : identity, ideology, and the contested US academy / Political economy of higher education in the time of global markets : whither the social responsibility of the university? / Global economy, the state, social movements, and the university : concluding remarks and an agenda for action /
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