3736

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edited by Sverker Sorlin and Hebe Vessuri

1st ed

Palgrave Macmillan

vi, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Issues in higher education

"The UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge; International Association of Universities."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : The democratic deficit of knowledge economies / Sverker Sن rlin and Hebe Vessuri -- Modes of knowledge and patterns of power / Maurice Kogan -- Universities and society : whose terms of engagement? / Mala Singh -- Knowledge, globalization, and hegemony : production of knowledge in the twenty-first century / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- Knowledge and equity : unequal access to education, academic success and employment opportunities : the gender balance in Algeria / Nouria Benghabrit-Remaoun -- Knowledge, culture, and politics : the status of women in the Arab world / Fahima Charaffedine -- Knowledge, theory, and tension between local and universal knowledge / Roberto Fernع ndez Retamar -- The hybridization of knowledge : science and local knowledge in support of sustainable development / Hebe Vessuri -- Remarks on the relationship between knowledge functions and the role of the university / Akira Arimoto

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2007

1391/09/17

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2007