Full Description
In this monograph, Lili Yang compares core ideas about the state, society, and higher education in two major world traditions. She explores the broad cultural and philosophical ideas underlying the public good of higher education in the two traditions, reveals their different social imaginaries, and works through five areas where higher education intersects with the individual, society, the state, and the world, intersections understood in contrasting ways in each tradition. The five key themes are: individual student development in higher education, equity in higher education, academic freedom and university autonomy, the resources and outcomes of higher education, and cross-border higher education activities and higher education's global outcomes. In exploring the similarities, Yang highlights important meeting points between the two world views, with the potential to contribute to the mutual understanding and cooperation across cultures.
Contents
Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Cultural and Philosophical Foundations
1. The Higher Education-Related Chinese Tradition
2. The Higher Education-Related Liberal Anglo-American Tradition
3. A New Common Template for Comparison: The Five Key Themes
Part II: The Public (Good) in Higher Education
4. Student Development in Higher Education: Xiushen (Self-Cultivation) and Bildung
5. Equity in Higher Education: Gongping and Equity
6. Academic Freedom and University Autonomy: Zhi (The Free Will) and Liberty
7. The Resources and Outcomes of Higher Education: The Gong/Public and Si/Private
8. Global Outcomes of Higher Education: Global Public/Common Goods and Tianxia Weigong (all under heaven belongs to/is for all)
Part III: Trans-Positional Approaches to the Public (Good) in Higher Education
9. Comparison and Combination: Complementarities, Hybridisations, and Synergies
Conclusion
References
Index
