Announcing release of new book on University Futures:
The University in Transformation: Global Perpectives of the Futures of the University
Edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
Bergin & Garvey
Westport, Conn
2000
280 pages
LC 99-16061
ISBN 0-89789-718-8
H718 $65.00
http://info.greenwood.com/books/0897897/0897897188.html
Contributing Authors:
Tom Abeles, Marcus Bussey, Jim Dator, James Grant, Anne Hickling-Hudson,
Greg Hearn, Patricia Kelly, Peter Manicas, Ivana Milojevic, Shahrzad Mojab,
Ashis Nandy, Deane Neubauer, Patricia Nicholson, David Rooney, Tariq
Rahman, Michael Skolnik, Philip Spies and Paul Wildman.
Comments On The University In Transformation:
This book is admirably comprehensive. Its authors look at the impact on
universities of all the major trends of our times. Even better, they go
beyond the usual western focus and attempt a genuinely world view. A very
stimulating contribution to the debate.
-
Sir John Daniel, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University
Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley have responded to the present crises
of higher education by bringing together a must-read collection of papers.
Firmly grounding their work on past trends, both the Western and
Non-Western authors of these papers challenge conventional thinking as they
explore possible, probable, and preferable futures for the university. A
first-rate piece of work that might help us avoid a potential coming
educational catastrophe.
-
Professor Wendell Bell, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University
...University in Transformation is highly recommended as an engaging,
informative, and visionary text for those concerned with the critical role
of universities in personal and national development in the 21st century.
-
Professor Robert Arnove, Professor of International and Comparative
Education, Indiana University, Bloomington
This book is a `must' reading for all professionals in higher education and
those policy makers who have influence upon the direction of higher
education in the U.S. as well as other countries....While thoughtful in
insight, it is also practical in ideas. Anyone who reads it will come away
with the importance of higher education and its role in building a global
society where humanity will ultimately prevail.
-
Professor Glenn K. Miyataki, President, The Japan-America Institute of
Management Science, Honolulu, Hawaii
A very impressive collection... This book arrives just-in-time for
universities that want a future.
-
Gordon Prestoungrange, Global President, International Management Centers
Book Summary
Taking a long-term historical and future perspective on the university is
critical at this time. The university is being refashioned, often by
forces out of the control of academics, students, and even administrators.
However, there remain possibilities for informed action, for steering the
directions that the university can take. This book maps both the historical
factors and the alternative futures of the university. Whereas most books
on the university remain focused on the European model, this volume
explores models and issues from non-Western perspectives as well.
Inayatullah and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a
variety of disciples and nations on the futures of the university, weaving
historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism,
virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt to get
beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet as well as
multiculturalism are changing the nature of the university, and they
thoughtfully assess these changes.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Forces Shaping University Futures by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURES OF THE UNIVERSITY
University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation by Philip
Spies
Higher Education at the Brink by Peter Manicas
Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher
Education by Deane Neubauer
The Virtual University and the Professoriate by Michael Skolnik
The Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well by
Jim Dator
Why Pay for a College Education? by Tom Abeles
Of Minds, Markets and Machines: How Universities might transcend the
Ideology of Commodification by David Rooney and Greg Hearn
At the Edge of Knowledge-Towards Polyphonic Multiversities by Paul Wildman
NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University
by Ashis Nandy
Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future by Tariq Rahman
Civilizing the State: the University in the Middle East by Shahrzad Mojab
Scholar Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University by
Anne Hickling-Hudson
Internationalizing the Curriculum-for Profit or the Planet? by Patricia Kelly
ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSITIES
The Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century
and Beyond by Ivana Milojevic
Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations by Marcus Bussey
Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps by
Patricia Nicholson
Consciousness-Based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New
Millennium by James Grant
TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY
Corporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the
University by Sohail Inayatullah
Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures by Jennifer Gidley
ABOUT THE EDITORS
SOHAIL INAYATULLAH is Professorial Research Fellow, Tamkang University,
Visiting Academic, Queensland University of Technology and Professor and
David Sutton Fellow, International Management Centers. In 1999, he was
Tamkang Chair, Tamkang University, Taiwan and UNESCO Chair, Center for
European Studies, University of Trier, Germany. He is the author of over
200 journal articles, book chapters and popular magazine pieces and has
authored/edited 10 books. He is also Fellow, World Academy of Art and
Science and Fellow, World Futures Studies Federation as well as Associate
Editor, New Renaissance and Co-editor, Journal of Futures Studies.
s.inayatullah@qut.edu.au
JENNIFER GIDLEY is an Educational Psychologist and Futures Researcher.
jgidley@scu.edu.au
TO ORDER:
US/Canada: http://info.greenwood.com/shop/cart.pl
Australia: http://www.dadirect.com.au/humanities.html#2
Elsewhere: http://info.greenwood.com/shop/purchase.pl
Contact F. David Peat
|
