CERC Studies in Comparative Education, No.3
Comparative Higher Education:
Knowledge, The University and Development
by Philip Altbach
ISBN 10: 962-8093-88-6; ISBN 13: 978-962-8093-88-5. (1998,312pp.)
HK$180 (local), US$30.00 (overseas)
published by Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC)
Contents
Introduction
Introduction: Comparative Perspectives for the Twenty First Century
Part One: Perspectives
1. Patterns in Higher Education Development
2. The University as Center and Periphery
3. Twisted Roots: The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education
4. The American Academic Model in Comparative Perspective
Part Two: Teachers and Students
5. An International Academic Crisis?: The American Professoriate in
Comparative Perspective
6. Professors and Politics: An International Perspective
7. Student Political Activism
8. Student Politics in the Third World
Part Three: Exchanges: People and Ideas
9. Gigantic Peripheries: India and China in the World Knowledge System
10. The New Internationalism: Foreign Students and Scholars
11. The Foreign Student Dilemma
Part Four: Peripheral Centers: The Newly Industrializing Countries
12. Higher Education, Democracy, and Development: Implications for
Newly Industrialized Countries
13. Higher Education and Scientific Development in the NICs