Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
Reihe: Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices
A Local or Global Phenomenon
Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
Reihe: Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices
ISBN: 978-94-6209-406-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
A spectre is haunting almost all universities in the world, including Taiwan—the spectre of “indexization.” Academics, particularly social scientists are panting from the pressure of globally spread neoliberal ideology and market-based principles. Collegiality on campus in the good old days has declined, and managerialism gained power instead. Competitive funding and university rankings are excessively emphasized, and research results are required to be internationalized, i.e., published in English. Although this book is a case study of so-called SSCI syndrome in Taiwan, the problems and challenges as well as prescription contained here are common to all academics, especially those in the non-English speaking countries positioned as “peripheral.”