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'Between the ever-open possibilities of the global space, and the nation-state with its still seemingly irreducible hold on territory and imagination, lies the region. In higher education there are many kinds of region. This is by far the best book on regional developments, and one of the first two or three books we must now turn to in order to understand global higher education-it provides an invaluable geo-spatial lens that complements analyses based on political economy and culture.'
- Simon Marginson, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education and University College London, UK
This original book provides a unique analysis of the different regional and inter-regional projects, their processes and the politics of Europeanisation, globalisation and education. Collectively, the contributors engage with a range of theories on regionalising to explore new ways of thinking about regionalisms and inter-regionalisms with a focus on the higher education sector. It makes the compelling case that globally, higher education is being transformed by regionalizing and inter-regionalizing projects aimed at resolving ongoing economic, political and cultural challenges within and beyond national territorial states.
The chapters range over a wide geography of regional projects and their unique politics - from Europe to Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Gulf, and the Barent region. Collectively they reveal the diverse, uneven, and variegated nature of global regionalisms in higher education.
Comprehensive and theoretically informed, this unique book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students, in addition to policymakers and administrators involved in higher education.
Contributors include: T. Aljafari, N. Azman, A.A. Bakar, R.Y. Chao Jr., J.-É. Charlier, S. Croché, R. Dale, Q.A. Dang, L.A. Gandin, T.D. Jules, S. Melo, P. Motter, T. Muhr, M.L. Neves de Azevedo, K. Olds, O.M. Panait, D. Perrotta, S.L. Robertson, M. Sirat, M. Sundet, A. Welch
Contents
Contents:
Introduction
Global Regionalisms and Higher Education
Susan L. Robertson, Roger Dale, Kris Olds and Que Anh Dang
1. Higher Education, The EU, and the Cultural Political Economy of Regionalism
Susan L. Robertson, Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo and Roger Dale
2. Different Regionalisms, One European Higher Education Regionalization: The Case of the Bologna Process
Susana Melo
3. Erasmus Mundus and the EU: Intrinsic Sectoral Regionalism in Higher Education
Roger Dale
4. Inter-regional Higher Education Arena: The Transposition of European Instruments in Africa
Jean-Émile Charlier, Sarah Croché and Oana Marina Panait
5. Harmonization of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Regionalism: Politics First, and then Education
Morshidi Sirat, Norzaini Azman and Aishah Abu Bakar
6. Changing Higher Education Discourse in the Making of the ASEAN Region
Roger Y. Chao Jr.
7. Shaping an ASEM (Higher) Education Area: Hybrid Sectoral Regionalism from Within
Que Anh Dang
8. Ir-Regular Regionalism? China's Borderlands and ASEAN Higher Education: Trapped in the Prism
Anthony Welch
9. Good Friends and Faceless Partners: Educational Cooperation for Community Building in the Barents Region
Marit Sundet
10. Transregionalism and the Caribbean Higher Educational Space
Tavis D. Jules
11. MERCOSUR, Regulatory Regionalism and Contesting Projects of Higher Education Governance
Daniela Perrotta
12. South-South Development Cooperation and the Socio-Spatial Reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean Regionalisms: University Education in the Brazil-Venezuela 'Special Border Regime'
Thomas Muhr
13. Higher Education and New Regionalism in Latin America: The UNILA Project
Paulino Motter and Luis Armando Gandin
14. Regionalization, Higher Education and the Gulf Cooperation Council
Tahani Aljafari
Index
