The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University

by Jennifer Gidley, Sohail Inayatullah

Overview

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, this volume explores models and issues from non-Western perspectives as well.

Inayatullah and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a variety of disciples and nations on the futures of the university, weaving historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism, virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt to get beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet as well as multiculturalism are changing the nature of the university, and they thoughtfully assess these changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897897181
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/2000
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	1,161,852
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

SOHAIL INAYATULLAH is Professorial Research Fellow, Tamkang University, Visiting Academic, Queensland University of Technology and Professor and David Sutton Fellow, International Management Centres. In 1999, he was Tamkang Chair, Tamkang University, Taiwan and UNESCO Chair, Centre for European Studies, University of Trier, Germany. He is the author of 200 jourbanal articles, book chapters and popular magazine pieces and has authored/edited 10 books. He is also a Fellow for the World Academy of Art and Science and a Fellow for the World Futures Studies Federation. He is Associate Editor for New Renaissance and Coeditor for the Jourbanal of Futures Studies.

JENNIFER GIDLEY is an Educational Psychologist and Futures Researcher. She is currently a Counselor and Consultant to schools, public and private, and lectures in Social Sciences at Southern Cross University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The University in Transformation: Globalization, Multiculturalism, Virtualization and Politicization by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
Western Perspectives on the Futures of the University
University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation by Philip Spies
Higher Education at the Brink by Peter Manicas
Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education by Deane Neubauer
The Virtual University and the Professoriate by Michael Skolnik
The Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well by Jim Dator
Why Pay for a College Education? by Tom Abeles
Of Minds, Markets and Machines: How Universities might transcend the Ideology of Commodification by David Rooney and Greg Hearn
At the Edge of Knowledge-Towards Polyphonic Multiversities by Paul Wildman
Non-Western Perspectives on the Futures of the University
Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University by Ashis Nandy
Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future by Tariq Rahman
Civilizing the State: the University in the Middle East by Shahrzad Mojab
Scholar Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University by Anne Hickling-Hudson
Internationalizing the Curriculum-for Profit or the Planet? by Patricia Kelly
Alternative Universities
The Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond by Ivana Milojevic
Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations by Marcus Bussey
Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps by Patricia Nicholson
Consciousness-Based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium by James Grant
Transformations of the University
Corporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University by Sohail Inayatullah
Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures by Jennifer Gidley
Selected Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

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)

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