Community Colleges Worldwide : investigating the Global Phenomenon / edited by Alexander W. Wiseman [and others]
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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2012.
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Series: | International perspectives on education and society ;
v. 17. |
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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.