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The expansion of Western education overseas has been both an economic success, if the numbers of American, European, and Australian universities setting up campuses in Asia and the Middle East is a measure -- and a source of consternation for academics concerned with norms of free inquiry and intellectual freedom. Faculty at Western campuses have resisted the new satellite campuses, fearing that colleagues on those campuses would be less free to teach and engage in intellectual inquiry, and that students could be denied the free inquiry normally associated with liberal arts education. Critics point to the denial of visas to academics wishing to carry out research on foreign campuses, the sudden termination of employment at schools in both the Middle East and Asia, or the last-minute cancellation of courses at those schools, as evidence that they were correctly suspicious of the possibility that liberal arts programs could exist in those regions. Supporters of the project have argued that opening up foreign campuses brings free inquiry to closed societies, improves educational opportunities for students who would otherwise be denied them, or, perhaps less frequently, that free inquiry will be no more pressured than in the United States or Western Europe. Normative Tensions examines the consequences not only of expansion overseas, but the increased opening of universities to foreign students.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Kevin W. Gray
Chapter 1: Academic Freedom in Xi's China: A Text Mining Study of Cultural Contestations by
Kenneth C. C. Yang and Yowei Kang
Chapter 2: The Interaction of Academic Freedom and State Sovereignty by Syd Waters
Chapter 3: Higher Education in Turkey: Academic Freedom and Resistance by Sevgi Dogan
Chapter 4: Is Philosophical Thinking Possible in Higher Education in the American(-style)
Universities in the GCC? By Sevket Benhur Oral
Chapter 5: An MSU-within-MSU: Mandarin-Speaking Undergraduates Writing “Chinglish” by
Sheng-Mei Ma
Chapter 6: Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies by Jim Sleeper
Chapter 7: Academic Freedom and the Social Context of Universities by John Ryder

Product details

Published Jun 01 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 202
ISBN 9781793620330
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 3 b/w illustrations;2 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Kevin W. Gray

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Sevgi Dogan

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Kevin W. Gray

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Yowei Kang

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Sheng-mei Ma

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John Ryder

John Ryder has been a professor of philosophy and…

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Jim Sleeper

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Syd Waters

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