International networking in the United Arab Emirates higher education system: global-local tensions.

Autor/in	Findlow, Sally
Titel	International networking in the United Arab Emirates higher education system: global-local tensions.
Quelle	In: Compare, 35 (2005) 3, S. 285-302Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Internationalisierung; Soziales Netzwerk; Islam; Globalisierung; Netzwerk; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	This paper provides a description of the international networking tensions involved in the recent development of a higher education system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): a single context offering distinct and variable constructions of 'local' and 'global'. The paper explores contextualised associations of these concepts-or instances between localism and fundamentalism, focusing on pan-Arab and Egyptian influences in the country as key to understanding the variable boundaries of these networks that support a relativist, situationally constructed reading of the 'global networking phenomenon'. Within this context, the paper also explores connections between higher education networking, collective identity and state governance; it offers a version of modernism in which nation-state sovereignty and a networked society, facilitated in a range of ways by a uniquely outward-looking approach to higher education, are integrally linked, and not dependant on the existence of such 'global' norms as constitutional democracy. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/1