Higher Education Access in the Asia Pacific
Examines how societal values and public funding shape beliefs about the function of higher education in society Explores how higher education compares to other human rights, and if there is a ranking of importance when it comes to rights Includes cultural analyses from regions, nation-states, and economies that sort out the degree to which the hypotheses outlined by Neubauer, Shin, and Hawkins (2013) play a role in the conceptualization of higher education as a human right
| ISBN: | 9783319586694 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 166 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Buasuwan, Prompilai Collins, Christopher S. |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 07.09.2017 |
| Untertitel: | Privilege or Human Right? |
| Schlagworte: | Asian studies Comenius Western dominance cultural development human rights philosophy of education public investment and cultural values |
Christopher S. Collins is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA. He studies the function of higher education in society from a global perspective and has recently published multiple edited volumes on the Asia Pacific region with Palgrave Macmillan. Prompilai Buasuwan is Head of the Department of Education and Associate Professor in the Program of Educational Administration at Kasetsart University, Thailand. Her main research interests include quality of education, university and community engagement, internationalization of education, and educational policy analysis and evaluation.