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  • Degrees of Dignity

    Arab Higher Education in the Global Era

    de Elizabeth Buckner ...
    Presenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner explores how apolitical external reform models become contested and modified by local ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Higher Education and Sustainable Development in the Arab Gulf States

    Practical Approaches and Institutional Strategies

    Edición de Khalaf Al'Abri, Elizabeth Buckner ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume critically examines the role of higher education institutions in the Arab Gulf States in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of the region’s distinctive resource dependence, environmental vulnerability, and rapid socio-economic transformation. Drawing on original empirical research from across the region, the book analyses how universities are ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Not Your Cash Cow, Not Your Scapegoat

    Student Migration and Canadian Universities

    de Racialization of Asian International Students Collective, Firrisaa Jamal Abdulkarim, Elizabeth Buckner, Elic Chan, Soma Chatterjee, Ann H. Kim, Eun Gi Kim, Yifan Liu, Sophie Xiaoyi Liu, Yazhi Luo, Marie-Odile Magnan, Jean Michel Montsion, Ajay Parasram, Shirin Shahrokni, Roberta Soares, Lori Wilkinson ...
    International students have long been seen as cash cows by Canadian universities, a revenue stream of high tuition fees for the same education received by lower-paying domestic students. While in the past their inclusion has been lauded as “recruiting global talent” to Canada, more recently these students have been blamed for social issues from housing shortages to spreading disease — various ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • International Students from Asia in Canadian Universities

    Institutional Challenges at the Intersection of Internationalization, Racialization and Inclusion

    Edición de Ann Kim, Elizabeth Buckner, Jean Michel Montsion ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility
    This book explores how the recruitment and retention of Asian international students in Canadian universities intersects with other institutional priorities. Responding to the growing need for new insights and perspectives on the institutional mechanisms adopted by Canadian universities to support Asian international students in their academic and social integration to university life, it ... Leer más

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  • The Equity Myth

    Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

    de Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos, Malinda S. Smith ...
    The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and racism doesn’t exist. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. While some studies do point to the persistence of systemic barriers to equity in higher education, in-depth analyses of racism, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    de Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • European Social Policy and Social Work

    Citizenship-Based Social Work

    de Hans van Ewijk ...
    European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities for social welfare held by the state, the market and civil society. Hans van Ewijk then elaborates a new ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Business Networks in Syria

    The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

    de Bassam S. A. Haddad ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Markets of Dispossession

    NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

    de Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Julia Elyachar ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Sociology of Higher Education

    Contributions and Their Contexts

    de Patricia J. Gumport ...
    "Outstanding . . . it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice." — ChoiceIn this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Burton Clark's foundational article in 1973. They trace diverse conceptual and empirical ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    de John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    de Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD