The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The contributors examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world and explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.…mehr
The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The contributors examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world and explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.
Edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James I. McDougall
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction James I. McDougall Mapping the American-Style University Chapter 1 "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University " Walter Mignolo Chapter 2 "American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East " Patrick McGreevy Chapter 3 "Soft Power Goes Abroad: The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in the Arab Gulf States " Mary Ann Tétreault Chapter 4 "Out of the Open Admissions Contexts: Transplanting a "Clean" American Community College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong " Ting Man Tsao Chapter 5 "The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U: An Interview with Andrew Ross " James I. McDougall and Kathryn L. Kleypas Performing the American-Style University Chapter 6 "Performing the Global University " Eng-Beng Lim Chapter 7 "Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University " James I. McDougall Chapter 8 "Nostalgia Performance and Pedagogy in the American-Style University " Kathryn L. Kleypas Chapter 9 "Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference: Branding an American-Style University in the Arabian Gulf " Mary Queen Chapter 10 "A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile?: the American-Style University in the 'Desert of the Real '" Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton Disciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style University Chapter 11 "The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut " Malini Johar Schueller Chapter 12 "Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition " Mark Schaub Chapter 13 "Running Dogs and English Gods: New Challenges for Taiwan's English Departments " Mary Goodwin Chapter 14 "Critical Thinking Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the American University in Bulgaria " Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen and John W. Mullen Conclusion Kathryn L. Kleypas Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction James I. McDougall Mapping the American-Style University Chapter 1 "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University " Walter Mignolo Chapter 2 "American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East " Patrick McGreevy Chapter 3 "Soft Power Goes Abroad: The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in the Arab Gulf States " Mary Ann Tétreault Chapter 4 "Out of the Open Admissions Contexts: Transplanting a "Clean" American Community College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong " Ting Man Tsao Chapter 5 "The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U: An Interview with Andrew Ross " James I. McDougall and Kathryn L. Kleypas Performing the American-Style University Chapter 6 "Performing the Global University " Eng-Beng Lim Chapter 7 "Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University " James I. McDougall Chapter 8 "Nostalgia Performance and Pedagogy in the American-Style University " Kathryn L. Kleypas Chapter 9 "Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference: Branding an American-Style University in the Arabian Gulf " Mary Queen Chapter 10 "A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile?: the American-Style University in the 'Desert of the Real '" Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton Disciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style University Chapter 11 "The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut " Malini Johar Schueller Chapter 12 "Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition " Mark Schaub Chapter 13 "Running Dogs and English Gods: New Challenges for Taiwan's English Departments " Mary Goodwin Chapter 14 "Critical Thinking Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the American University in Bulgaria " Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen and John W. Mullen Conclusion Kathryn L. Kleypas Index
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