Globalization and the Changing Educational Landscape: Implications for Academic Libraries, Librarians, and Library Users

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Lilburn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This paper responds to recent work exploring the relationship between the political economy of globalization and institutions of higher education. It considers implications of this relationship for the library as a unit within the university and for the role librarians play as teachers helping to produce informed and active citizens.Cet article répond à des récents travaux explorant la relation entre l'économie politique de la mondialisation et les institutions d'enseignement supérieur. Seront examinées les conséquences de cette relation sur les bibliothèques en milieu universitaire ainsi que sur la tâche de formateur des bibliothécaires qui produisent des citoyens informés et actifs. 

IR, the Critic, and the World: From Reifying the Discipline to Decolonising the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 030582982093706
Author(s):  
Isaac Kamola
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Why does IR scholarship seem so resistant to travel into other disciplinary spaces? To answer this question, I look at the tendency for scholars within our discipline to talk to the discipline, about the discipline, and for the discipline. We obsess over ‘IR’ and, in doing so, reify IR as a thing. I turn towards Edward Said’s arguments about the worldliness of texts, and how reification shapes how ideas travel. I then provide two illustrations of how scholars have reified IR as a thing: Robert Cox’s approach to critical theory and Amitav Acharya’s call for a ‘Global IR’. In both cases, contrary to expectation, the authors reify IR as a thing, portraying the discipline as distinct from the world. IR is treated as something with agency, ignoring how disciplinary knowledge is produced within worldly institutions. I conclude by looking at three strategies for studying worldly relations in ways that refuse to reify the discipline: showing disloyalty to the discipline, engaging the political economy of higher education, and seeking to decolonise the university. Rather than reifying IR, these strategies help us to engage our scholarly work in a way that prioritises worldly critical engagements within our disciplinary community, and the world.

scholarly journals Entry barriers and “Glass Roof” in University Management in Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (65) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Cristian Bedoya Dorado ◽  
Mónica García-Solarte ◽  
Juan Sebastián Peña-Zúñiga ◽  
Steven Alejandro Piñeros Buriticá
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
University Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Management in the context of higher education has been characterized by the predominance of male participation, mainly in senior management positions. As a result, women’s low participation is mainly concentrated in lower management positions, and their chances of escalating hierarchical positions are mediated by various factors ranging from subjective to socially naturalized. The objective of this research is to analyze the barriers women face to enter and escalate positions in university management in Colombia. Under a qualitative design, 26 semi-structured interviews were applied to university managers from different institutions of higher education in Colombia. The transcripts were analyzed using discourse analysis through three categories: individual, internal, and external barriers of the university. It was found that women face entry and promotion barriers marked by experiences, and conditions of inequality and discrimination in a male-dominated context. These barriers are conditioned by personal elements, organizational culture, and the social role of women. In addition, women’s trajectories involve mediation between professional development and family life. The study reveals experiences that contribute to understanding the research phenomenon from the webbing of senses and meanings. It is posited that the “glass ceiling” is mediated by variables in the internal order, and by the relationship between universities and their context.

Administration and Management in Institutions of Higher Education in the Kingdom SHS (Based on the Example of Universities in Belgrade and Zagreb)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Dušan Bajagić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Autonomous System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
The University

The method of quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary documents (laws and by-laws) made it possible to study the administration and nature of the management of institutions of higher education under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. This is the University of Belgrade (BU), as well as the University (ZU) and the high schools in Zagreb. The findings of the survey confirmed that, in the context of the pluralism of legal systems that remained in the Kingdom SHS (KSHS), these two centers of higher education, each of which had special autonomous rights, were different administrative systems. BU as a whole was formed and developed in the period before WWI. At the same time, in the KSHS more attention was paid to the creation and development of individual faculties. So, BU took the form of an autonomous, integrated and self-sufficient administrative system, which independently chose its own authorities and carried out all the tasks before it. ZU consisting of three faculties had been developing for half a century in Austria-Hungary. In accordance with the territorial and political autonomy of the region, Croatia and Slavonia ZU embodied the model of territorial-functional administrative system. It was governed by the political power – the land government / regional administration, as well as the ban / regional governor. Their interrelated and interdependent authorities covered most of the cases and tasks that accompanied the work of the memory and higher schools. Within the framework of the KSHS, in just over six years, ZU, which grew out as a result of the opening of three new faculties and three higher schools, became an autonomous system of management.

The marginalization of the Arab language in social science: Structural constraints and dependency by choice

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 723-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi ◽  
Rigas Arvanitis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims at questioning the relationship between Arab social research and language by arguing that many factors including the political economy of publication, globalization, internationalization and commodification of higher education have marginalized peripheral languages such as Arabic. The authors demonstrate, on the one hand, that this marginalization is not necessarily structurally inevitable but indicates dependency by choice, and, on the other hand, how globalization has reinforced the English language hegemony. This article uses the results of a questionnaire survey about the use of references in PhD and Master’s theses. The survey, which was answered by 165 persons, targeted those who hold a Master’s or PhD degree from any university in the Arab world or who have dealt with a topic related to the Arab world, no matter in which discipline.

scholarly journals The higher education and loyalty: a strategic tool to the retaining of clients

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Fabio Bergamo ◽  
Osvaldo Elias Farah ◽  
Antônio Carlos Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Management Area ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Education In Brazil

With the expansion of the higher education in Brazil, the dropout phenomenon has reached a high-level concern among the university managers. In this study, are presented the theoretical bases of the element loyalty, prominence in the management area, in terms of maintenance of the relationship with the customers, applying it to the higher education environment. The characteristics of the student’s loyalty towards the institutions of higher education (known in Portuguese as IES, Instituições de Ensino Superior) are presented and deined, leading to managerial implications that can be relected in the universities and colleges that aim to increase the students’ retention levels.

Bridging the Gap between Political and Penal Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Henham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Value ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Sentencing Policy ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that the relationship between penal policy and the political economy provides important insights into the political and institutional reforms required to minimize harsh and discriminatory penal policies. However, the capacity of sentencing policy to engage with this social reality in a meaningful way necessitates a recasting of penal ideology. To realize this objective requires a profound understanding of sentencing’s social value and significance for citizens. The greatest challenge then lies in establishing coherent links between penal ideology and practice to encourage forms of sentencing that are sensitive to changes in social value. The chapter concludes by explaining how the present approach taken by the courts of England and Wales to the sentencing of women exacerbates social exclusion and reinforces existing divisions in social morality. It urges fundamental changes in ideology and practice so that policy reflects a socially valued rationale for the criminalization and punishment of women.

A University Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
University Education ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England, entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools--a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution and then tracks the individual on their journey to and through university. In A University Education, David Willetts presents a compelling case for the ongoing importance of the university, both as one of the great institutions of modern society and as a transformational experience for the individual. The book also makes illuminating comparisons with higher education in other countries, especially the US and Germany. Drawing on his experience as UK Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, the author offers a powerful account of the value of higher education and the case for more expansion. He covers controversial issues in which he was involved from access for disadvantaged students to the introduction of L9,000 fees. The final section addresses some of the big questions for the future, such as the the relationship between universities and business, especially in promoting innovation.. He argues that the two great contemporary trends of globalisation and technological innovation will both change the university significantly. This is an authoritative account of English universities setting them for the first time in their new legal and regulatory framework.

Space Making as Artistic Practice: The Relationship between Grassroots Art Organizations and the Political Economy of Urban Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1142-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira Zilberstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Art Organizations ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Relationship

Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as connected to sources of dominant economic, social, and cultural capital and complicit in gentrification trends. This research challenges the conventional model by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to marginal and local groups, and the political economy of development in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. Using mixed methods, I investigate Do–It–Yourself and Latinx artists to understand the construction and goals of grassroots art organizations. Through their engagements with cultural representations, space and time, grassroots artists represent and amplify the interests of marginal actors. By allying with residents, community organizations and other art spaces, grassroots artists form a social movement to redefine the goals and usages of urban space. My findings indicate that heterogeneous art networks exist and grassroots art networks can influence urban space in opposition to top–down development.

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