World Yearbook of Education 2008

The Editors The editorial team consists of inter-disciplinary scholars drawn from a range of base disciplines and geographical locations. Rebecca Boden is professor of critical management at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK. Her primary focus is the management and financing of sites of knowledge creation, particularly science laboratories and universities. She has published extensively on the issues of how public management policies and practice impact upon knowledge creation and dissemination. Rosemary Deem is Professor of Education, Graduate Dean & Joint Education Director for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Bristol University. She has done extensive research on the governance and management of higher education. Debbie Epstein is a professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences though of South African origin. She is interested in the construction and maintenance of social inequalities and social identities. Her work on higher education and research concerns questions arising from globalisation, governance and research ethics. Fazal Rizvi is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include: comparative and international education; higher education and policy in the Asia-Pacific; cultural globalization and education policy; postcolonial theories of identity, representation and education; global inequalities and educational policy; and international student mobility. Susan Wright is professor of educational anthropology at the Danish University of Education. She has published widely on the globalisation and reform of higher education. She is editor of Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences. Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem and Debbie Epstein are co-organisers, with Phil Brown of Cardiff University, of a 2006-7 seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on Geographies of Knowledge/ Geometries of Power: Globalisation and Higher Education in the 21st Century which forms the basis for this Yearbook.

1.Introduction: Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Higher Education in the 21st Century, Debbie Epstein Section 1. 2. Introduction: Producing and Reproducing the University, Rosemary Deem 3.Repairing the Deficits of Modernity; the emergence of parallel discourses in higher education in Europe, Roger Dale 4. The University and the Welfare State in Transition: Changing Public Services in a Wider Context, Marek Kwiek 5. University Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: the Case for Academic Caesarism, Steve Fuller 6. (Re)producing Universities: Knowledge Dissemination, Market Power and the Global Knowledge Commons, Penny Ciancanelli 7.New Tricks and Old Dogs? The Third Mission and the Re-production of the University, Maria Nedeva Section 2 8.Introduction: Supplying knowledge, Rebecca Boden 9.The Constitution of a New Global Regime: Higher Education in the GATS/WTO Framework, Antoni Verger 10.In Quality We Trust? The Case of Quality Assurance in Finnish Universities, Jani Ursin 11.HRM in HE: People Reform or Re-forming People?, Matt Waring 12.Policy Incitements to Mobility: Some Speculations and Provocations, Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey Section 3: 13.Introduction: Demanding Knowledge Marketing and Consumption, Susan Wright 14.Towards a High Skills Economy:Higher Education and the New Realities of Global Capitalism, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton 15.International Student Migration: The Case of Chinese Sea-turtles, Wei Shen 16.Government Rhetoric and Student Understandings: Discursive Framings of Higher Education Choice, Rachel Brooks 17.Higher Education: A Powerhouse for Development in a Neo-Liberal Age?, Rajani Naidoo 18. Shaping the global market of higher education through quality promotion, Gigliola Mathison 19.The Rise of Private Higher Education in Senegal: An Example of Knowledge Shopping?, Gunnar Guddal Michelson Section 4 20. Introduction: Transnational Academic Flows, Fazal Rizvi 21.Have global academic flows created a global labour market?, Simon Marginson 22.Transnational academic mobility in a global knowledge economy: comparative and historical motifs, Terri Kim 23.The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora: Communication Networks among Overseas Chinese Intellectuals in the Global Era, Anthony R. Welch and Zhang Zhen 24. Internationalization and the Cosmopolitical University, Rodrigo Britez and Michael A. Peters 25.The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education, Bill Cope and Marh Kalantzis