Rethinking private higher education : ethnographic perspectives /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 101
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 101.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11036387
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Other authors / contributors:Cantini, Daniele, editor.
ISBN:9789004267398 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004267395 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004291508 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Rethinking Private Higher Education' takes the university as a core institution in modern nation states, which is currently undergoing a serious revision. It offers fresh insights into the actual meaning of 'private' in different higher education contexts, contributing to a deeper understanding of the actual effects of global policies in local contexts through ethnographies. This book explores how private universities were established, their context and history, and their changing business models and operations. The strengths of this book are its ethnographic detail, which shows the complexity and fast changing forms of private higher education, and its reluctance to jump to simplified labelling of public and private. It is a model for further ethnographic studies of local developments in higher education.
Other form:Online version: Rethinking private higher education ethnographic perspectives Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004291508