TY  - GEN
T1  - Degrees of Dignity
A1  - Buckner, Elizabeth
LA  - eng
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-115898
AB  - 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 actors in ways that are simultaneously complicated, surprising, and even inspiring. Degrees of Dignity documents how the global discourses of neoliberalism have legitimized specific policy models for higher education reform in the Arab world, including quality assurance, privatization, and internationalization. Through a multi-level and comparative analysis, this book examines how policy models are implemented, with often complex results, in countries throughout the region. Ultimately, Degrees of Dignity calls on the field of higher education development to rethink current approaches to higher education reform: rather than viewing the Arab world as a site for intervention, it argues that the Arab world can act as a source for insight on resilient higher education systems.
SN  - 9781487546700
SN  - 9781487528942
KW  - Education
KW  - Sociology
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher & further education, tertiary education
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNK Organization & management of education
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNK Educational administration and organization
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
ER  -