Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes

This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings. Using eduscapes as its most important concept, this book explores the educational landscapes of individual as well as institutional actors; particularly the agential aspects of how global eduscapes are imagined, experienced, negotiated and constructed. In addition, the authors highlight the critical potential of anthropology, using this perspective as a resource for cultural critique where the Western experience and assumed 'ownership' of the global knowledge economy will be put into question. This comprehensive book will appeal to students and scholars of educational policy, the sociology of education and the globalization of education.

Per-Anders Forstorp is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Production at the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests center around methods and theories exploring a range of phenomena associated with knowledge production and education. Ulf Mellström is Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a social anthropologist; and has been the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Masculinity Studies since 2006.

Auteur
Per-Anders Forstorp is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Production at the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests center around methods and theories exploring a range of phenomena associated with knowledge production and education. Ulf Mellström is Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a social anthropologist; and has been the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Masculinity Studies since 2006.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Knowledge Society as Ideology and Practice
Chapter 2. Key Concepts and Themes
Chapter 3. The Empirical Complexity of Knowledge Society: Material and Methodological Framework
Chapter 4. Roots and Routes: Transnational Families and Global Horizons
Chapter 5. Transnational Educational Mobility and the Power of English
Chapter 6. The Gender Politics of Eduscapes
Chapter 7. The European Union as Educscape
Chapter 8. Becoming An Exporter of Higher Education: Positioning Sweden as a Knowledge Nation
Chapter 9. Going Global: How to Kickstart a Global HEI
Chapter 10. Conclusion and Discussion: Toward a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society