Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education: Globalization and Universities in China and the World (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)

Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education: Globalization and Universities in China and the World (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)

by JianLi (Author), Jian Li (Author)

Synopsis

This book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye's theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it. It focuses on conceptualizing the Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education, which is embedded in the globalization of higher education, and analyzes the globalization of Chinese higher education reform.
Also, this book provides innovative and unique viewpoints on conceptualizing and mapping the globalization and internationalization of higher education, especially for current Chinese higher education (1949-2016). It discusses and illustrates cutting-edge concepts of global higher education, such as global learning, global competency, and global citizenship and refines them in the conceptualized soft power conversion model of higher education.
This book reports on and enriches the theoretical concept of global education, and provides practical insights into global learning, global citizenship and global competency for Chinese undergraduate students.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Publisher: Springer
Published: 28 Sep 2018

ISBN 10: 9811306400
ISBN 13: 9789811306402

Author Bio
Jian Li is an assistant professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development at Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Dr. Li's general area of scholarship is the assessment of global competency and global learning within higher education institutions, an area in which she has pursued four themes: higher education policy and management; undergraduate students' global learning performance assessment; faculty global perspective within higher education; and global learning and development as a framework for institutional research. Dr. Li has published over 20 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 30 workshops and seminars and more than 10 keynote, peer-reviewed and invited presentations throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Africa, and Asia.