Description: This book invites faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs), and international institutions using western curricula, to consider the opportunities and challenges of implementing American-style education in non-western contexts.
Brief description: Ryan Miller started designing games at the age of 11, and hasn't stopped since. Through a series of fortunate events, coupled with hard work, he found himself working as a brand manager at Wizards of the Coast in 2000, but left in 2001 to found Sabertooth Games - his first professional game design gig. He recently completed a 10-year tour as senior game designer at Wizards of the Coast.
Review Quotes:
"The authors in this volume explore how American higher education gets localized though curricular adaptation in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, thoroughly challenging claims of uniform cultural imperialism and neoliberalism. The rich case studies presented here, often based on first-hand teaching experiences, are a unique and welcome addition to the scholarship on globalized higher education." --Neha Vora, Lafayette College
"This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the spread of American higher educational models and institutions throughout the world. Rather than theorizing abstractly about the meaning and significance of the internationalization of curricula, academic personnel and institutions, this volume provides a view from the inside out. Academics who have confronted the pedagogical and political-sociological issues associated with higher education transplantation write perceptively about their experiences. As a result, this collection provides the reader with a richly critical analysis of the promises and pitfalls associated with our present moment of higher educational transformation." --John Willoughby, American University, Co-author of Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf: Globalization and Institutional Viability "Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar's edited volume takes a much-needed comparative look at the internationalization of western higher education, investigating its challenges and opportunities through both theoretical lenses and detailed pedagogical interventions. In particular, the collected essays dive deeply into the experiences of American universities in the Middle East, with three case studies of Qatar's Education City alongside contributions from the American Universities of Beirut and Kuwait. Full of provocative and unique insights, Western Higher Education in Global Contexts invites the reader to better understand the interactive negotiations between the imported universities and the local communities they are meant to serve." --Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University, Qatar