Title The university, state, and market : the political economy of globalization in the Americas / edited by Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres

Published Stanford, Calif, : Stanford University Press, 2006

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Description xxxiii, 360 pages ; 23 cm Contents Foreword Critical theory, globalization, and higher education : political economy and the cul-de-sac of the postmodernist cultural turn / Raymond A Morrow -- Introduction : globalization and higher education in the Americas / Carlos Alberto Torres and Robert A. Rhoads -- World without war / Noam Chomsky -- University in the 21st century : toward a democratic and emancipatory university reform / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Academic capitalism and the new economy : privatization as shifting the target of public subsidy in higner education / Gary Rhoads and Sheila Slaughter -- Reforming the reforms : transformation and crisis in Latin American and Caribbean universities / Atilio A. Boron -- Globalization and the challenge to national universities in Argentina and Mexico / Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Andrea Brewster -- Latin American identities in transition : a diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian universities / Marcela Mollis -- Brazil's local solutions to global problems / Ken Kempner and Ana Loureiro Jurema -- Mexico's estímulos : faculty compensation based on piecework / Estela Mara Bensimon and Imanol Ordorika -- Graduate student unionization as a postindustrial social movement : identity, ideology, and the contested US academy / Robert A. Rhoads and Gary Rhoades -- Political economy of higher education in the time of global markets : whither the social responsibility of the university? / Daniel Schugurensky -- Global economy, the state, social movements, and the university : concluding remarks and an agenda for action / Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- North America. Education and globalization -- North America. Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Latin America. Education and globalization -- Latin America. Author Rhoads, Robert A. Torres, Carlos Alberto. LC no. 2005017982 ISBN 0804751684 cloth alkaline paper 0804751692 paperback alkaline paper

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