Globalisation, human rights education and reforms

This book, the seventieth instalment in the 24-volume series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and higher education reforms, setting it in a global context. By examining some of the major higher education reforms and policy issues in a global culture, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research, it provides a comprehensive portrait of the intersecting and diverse discourses of globalisation and policy-driven reforms in higher education. With this as its focus, the chapters represent hand-picked scholarly research on major discourses in the field of higher education reforms. The book draws upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation, equality, and the role of the state in higher education reforms. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates how shifts in the relationship between the state and higher education policy affect current trends in higher education reforms. Individual chapters critically assess the dominant discourses and debates on higher education and policy reforms. Using diverse comparative education paradigms from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the authors focus on globalisation, ideology and higher education reforms and examine both the reasons for and outcomes of higher education reforms and policy change. They provide a more informed critique of models of quality, standards-driven higher education reforms and leagues tables of universities that are defined and informed by Western-dominant ideologies and social values. The book also draws upon recent studies in the areas of equity, cultural capital and dominant models of global university rankings.