The Social Condition of Higher Education: Globalisation and (beyond) Regionalisation in Latin America

Autor/inn/en	Gomes, Alfredo M.; Robertson, Susan L.; Dale, Roger
Titel	The Social Condition of Higher Education: Globalisation and (beyond) Regionalisation in Latin America
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 10 (2012) 2, S.221-245 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2012.677708
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Correlation; Educational Change; Classification; International Cooperation; Geographic Regions; Politics; Futures (of Society); Empowerment; Privatization; Marketing; Business; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Government Role; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Globales Denken; Korrelation; Bildungsreform; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Politik; Future; Society; Zukunft; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; Brasilien
Abstract	This article aims to discuss the relationship between higher education (HE), globalisation and regionalism projects focusing on HE in Latin America and Brazil. It is claimed that HE has predominantly taken the diverse, yet concerted and co-ordinated routes of globalisation and regionalisation and, by doing so, been profoundly transformed. The first section considers a set of theoretical categories in relation to the phenomena of globalisation and regionalisation. The second section analyses the global and regional dimensions of HE in Latin America, exploring: (1) the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), along with the processes and mechanisms put into place to settle MERCOSUR's Educative Sector. It is argued that despite the political relevance of this regional project, its major developments are still harbouring important but preliminary preparations for future regional positioning and empowerment; (2) it is argued that the commodification, privatisation and "marketisation" of HE, having occupied the centre stage in determined nations of the world, have become the founding conditions of a global market in HE; and (3) the Brazilian HE policies are examined in order to develop an argument about the decisive role played by national government in promoting and adjusting the process of globalisation and the regionalism project for HE. (Contains 1 figure, 4 tables and 14 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10