Universities, Dependency and the Market: Innovative Lessons from Kenya

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, Ane Turner; Hirt, Joan B.
Titel	Universities, Dependency and the Market: Innovative Lessons from Kenya
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 44 (2014) 2, S.230-251 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2012.735156
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Universities; Educational Innovation; Educational Change; Institutional Mission; Brain Drain; Qualitative Research; Case Studies; Interviews; Marketing; Educational Policy; Commercialization; Educational Finance; Private Financial Support; Neoliberalism; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungsreform; Qualitative Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsfonds; Private Investition; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Kenia
Abstract	Higher education in developing nations is typically viewed from a dependency perspective--institutions are seen as merely recipients of Western knowledge, aid and reform efforts. Nevertheless, universities in both the centre and the periphery are dealing with tensions between protecting the public good and embracing neoliberal values based on a market approach to higher education. In the USA and Europe these competing interests are typically cast as mutually exclusive. Our study on the market approach to higher education in Kenya, however, suggests that public and private interests can be complementary, contributing to a re-envisioning of the traditional mission of higher education. This article seeks to examine more fully the nature of reform efforts at two universities in Kenya, to elucidate lessons for universities undergoing market-oriented reform in the West and to suggest a reciprocal relationship between institutions in Africa and Europe, upending the centre-periphery paradigm. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10