Knowledge Context

Philip G. Altbach is Professor in the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy Studies, and Director of the Comparative Education Center at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is also the editor of a SUNY Press book publication series, Frontiers in Education.

"Phil Altbach presents well the dilemma faced by Third World countries in their search for wider access to the knowledge and technical know-how produced in the industrialized nations. He makes a convincing case for the need of Third World nations to develop their own publishing skills and institutions for a variety of important reasons. Obviously sympathetic to the position of Third World countries at what he calls the periphery of the knowledge context, Altbach nevertheless strives for an even handed description of the roots of their difficulties, including an impartial appraisal of the much debated issue of the merits of state publishing versus private sector initiatives."—Peter H. Neumann, President, Peter H. Neumann Associates, Inc.

• ForewordIntroductionTHE KNOWLEDGE NETWORK1. Publishing and the Intellectual System2. Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World3. Scholarly Publishing in the Third World4. Center and Periphery: The Case of India5. Higher Education and International Knowledge DistributionTHEMES AND VARIATIONS6. Knowledge Enigma: The Context of Copyright in the Third World7. Textbooks in the Third World8. The Role and Nurturing of Journals in the Third World9. Book Publishing in a Developing Regional Culture: The Case of Maharashtra, India10. Access to Knowledge Networks: Problems and Possibilities for Southeast Asian Scholarly BooksEpilogue. Knowledge Networks in the Modern WorldNotesIndex