Changing Universities and International Academic Cooperation - Couverture souple

Schwartzman, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1973474549 ISBN 13 : 9781973474548

Editeur : Independently published, 2010

Synopsis

Academic international cooperation between US and Western Europe and developing countries reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, through a combination of increased support for higher education, science and technology in the US and Europe; the economic development and modernization drives of former colonial and developing countries; and the foreign policy of he US and Western Europe during the cold war years. Already in the 1980s, however, it had lost much of its priority, due to a succession of failures of international cooperation, a growing skepticism about the promises of modernization, a growing concern with issues of poverty and human rights, and the expansion of private higher education and the priority given to globalization and international competitiveness by the major universities in the US and elsewhere. This essay describes this development with a special emphasis on the links between the US and Latin America, and discusses the issues associated with the current trends. It concludes that truly cooperative undertakings are needed, and require stable, competent and reliable patterns on both sides, recreating the global epistemic communities that could provide the basis for their permanence.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1973474549
• ISBN 13: 9781973474548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 175
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