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Current Research Trends in Globalisation and Neo-Liberalism in Higher Education
Zajda, Joseph Rust, Val
Zajda, Joseph
Rust, Val
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The chapter analyses and evaluates the ascent of a neo-liberal and neo-conservative higher education policy, global university rankings, internationalization, quality assurance, entrepreneurial and competition for international students among universities, both locally and globally. Higher education policy reforms reflect aspects of a dominant ideology of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism. Neo-liberal policies are largely based on dominant market-oriented ideologies, rather than democratic policy reforms. The commodification of higher education, with its focus on vocationalism and labour market prospects for highly skilled and competent graduates, is a vivid outcome of market-driven economic imperatives of neo-liberal ideology. The chapter analyses the shifts in methodological approaches to globalisation, and neo-liberalism, and their impact on education policy. The chapter critiques globalisation, policy and education reform and suggests the emergence of new economic and political dimensions of neo-liberalism as cultural imperialism. Such hegemonic shifts in ideology and policy are likely to have significant economic and cultural implications for national education systems, reforms and policy implementations.
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academic achievement, authentic democracy, business-oriented model of education, competitive market forces, critical discourse analysis, cultural imperialism, discourses of globalisation, economic inequality, education reforms, global citizenship, global university ranking, globalisation, global university rankings, governance, higher education policy, human capital, human rights education, ideology, intercultural understanding, internationalization, macro-social perspective, marketisation, neo-conservatism · neo-liberal higher education policy, neo-liberal ideology, paradigms
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2020
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Book chapter
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Globalisation, Ideology and Neo-Liberal Higher Education Reforms
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1-9
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School of Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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