Community Colleges Worldwide : investigating the Global Phenomenon /

Community Colleges Worldwide : investigating the Global Phenomenon / edited by Alexander W. Wiseman [and others]

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This volume comparatively examines the way two-year and community college institutions worldwide serve communities in different international contexts for similar purposes; namely, to bridge the gap between academic and technical training with open and accessible learning.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Wiseman, Alexander W., 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Pub., 2012.
Series:International perspectives on education and society ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Community colleges.
Education, Higher.
Table of Contents:
  • Community colleges : where are they (not)? / Alexander W. Wiseman ... [et al.]
  • Educational borrowing and the emergence of community college global counterparts / Rosalind Latiner Raby, Edward J. Valeau
  • The Mexican idea of two-year university degrees : a model of opportunities and challenges / Gustavo Gregorutti
  • Producing American citizens with 'global competence' : internationalization of higher education and the community college's contribution through English as a second language education of adult immigrants / Neriko Musha Doerr
  • Indigenous rights and advanced capitalism in community colleges : the case of Nunavut Arctic College / Patricia Gaviria
  • Post-secondary schools and the expansion of higher education in Poland : post-secondary vocational education in crisis? / Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych
  • Assisting workforce education in the Republic of Georgia / Ardith Maney
  • The development of two-year technological colleges in Israel and its implications for stratification in higher education / Oren Pizmony-Levy ... [et al.]
  • Implications of the community college model in Ethiopia / Akemi Yonemura
  • The promise of the community college model in South Africa / C.C. Wolhuter
  • Education access problems of migrant workers in manufacturing areas in China / Minghua Li, Henry Levin
  • The evolving community college model in the socialist republic of Viet Nam / Cindy Epperson
  • The Indian community college movement : an overview (1995-2011) / S. Xavier Alphonse
  • The genesis and evolution of community colleges in Papua New Guinea / M.S. Joseph Antony Jacob
  • The development of the community college system in Thailand / Tanom Intarakumnerd.

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