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Free Download Robert Cutts, "An Empire of Schools: Japan’s Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 1563248433 | EPUB | pages: 286 | 0.6 mb
Based on in-depth analysis, extensive interviews, and a journalist’s keen insight, An Empire of Schools provides a new framework to explore the misunderstandings that have arisen between Japan and the United States. The vital determining issue that complicates U.S.-Sino communications, Cutts says, is not the cultural incompatibilities of the people or economies but the fact that all Japanese leaders emerge from the same educational treadmill or "cartels of the mind." This revered system, crowned by five national and private universities, and from which almost all Japanese leaders emerge, teaches its students that they are inherently incapable of sharing their values, civic or personal, with those of any other civilization. Describing an educational system that has been left fundamentally unchanged since the Meiji Empire, Cutts depicts the elites who graduate from the system, describes what ethical philosophy is imparted to those graduates, and warns of the dangers of nationalist elitism that arise from the system. Filled with personal anecdotes as well as critical interviews, An Empire of Schools traces the potential consequences to Japan and the Pacific Rim of an educational system that begins imparting an elitist doctrine in kindergarten that extends to the highest levels of Japanese government.

Free Download Tanya Storch, "Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education"
English | ISBN: 0739184083 | 2015 | 136 pages | PDF | 865 KB
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates in depth four American Buddhist universities, namely, the Dharma Realm Buddhist University, the University of the West, the Soka University of America, and the Naropa University, all of which offer degrees in liberal arts and professional fields, and at the same time educate their students in the philosophy and practices of Buddhism. Buddhist universities in the United States are unique because there are no comparable universities based on the philosophy and practices of other Asian religions also popular in the United States, such as Hinduism, Confucianism, or Sikhism. Even the Jewish community has created only two universities in which professional skills and liberal arts are taught from the position of the moral-philosophical principles of Judaism. This book presents the institutional history and academic programs of four Buddhist universities in America and analyzes Buddhist-based pedagogical principles, as well as teaching and learning techniques, which can be very useful for other colleges and universities in the United States.

Free Download Physics of Hot Plasmas: Scottish Universities’ Summer School 1968 By W. B. Thompson (auth.), B. J. Rye B.Sc., Ph.D., J. C. Taylor B.Sc., Ph.D. (eds.)
1995 | 455 Pages | ISBN: 1461586410 | PDF | 12 MB
HE ninth Scottish Universities’ Summer School in Physics, sponsored T jointly by the Scottish Universities and NATO was held at Newbattle Abbey from 28th July to 16th August 1968. This was the first Scottish Summer School to be devoted to plasma physics, the exact title for the School being the Physics of Hot Plasmas. Forty-three students were accepted, fourteen of these being resident in the United Kingdom. In addition there were eleven lecturers and seven other participants. The choice of lecturers, particularly in experimental plasma physics, was limited to some extent by the fact that an international conference on con trolled fusion was held at Novosibirsk during the first week in August. Not withstanding this, it was possible to arrange a programme of lectures reasonably well balanced between theoretical and experimental plasma physics. The topics chosen included kinetic theory, waves and oscillations, instabilities, turbulence, collisionless shocks, computational methods, laser scattering and laser generated plasmas, plasma production and containment. Several semi nars on special topics were given by invited speakers and by students.

Free Download Bart Funnekotter, "Eureka!: European Research Universities and the Challenges of the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 9053567526 | 2005 | 160 pages | PDF | 1157 KB
European universities currently face a dire financial crunch: governments throughout Europe are slashing their budgets for higher education, and fund-raising organizations are far less developed in European universities than in their American counterparts. €ureka! examines how European universities are rapidly adjusting to the situation, drawing on interviews with professionals and students from institutions in the League of European Research Universities. The contributors discuss ways in which European universities can raise funds and whether they will continue scholarly research or transform into research laboratories. €ureka! is a fascinating look at the state of higher education in a global context.

Free Download F. Seggie, "Religion and the State in Turkish Universities: The Headscarf Ban "
English | ISBN: 0230110371 | 2011 | 229 pages | EPUB | 453 KB
This book explores educational and cultural experiences of ‘part-time’ unveilers during their undergraduate degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term ‘part-time unveiler’ refers to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private lives but who remove the headscarf while at a Turkish university.

Free Download Between Nation and ‘Community’: Muslim Universities and Indian Politics After Partition
by Laurence Gautier
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009358499 | 490 Pages | PDF | 7.36 MB

Free Download David J. Maurrasse, "Beyond the Campus: How Colleges and Universities Form Partnerships with their Communities"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0415926211, 041592622X | PDF | pages: 202 | 1.3 mb
The role of the university and its relationship to the community has long been a highly debated topic among educators, administrators, and local business leaders. David J. Maurrasse offers a passionate appeal for community partnerships. Going further than a simple explanation of the problems at hand, Beyond the Campus offers a road map for both universities and local institutions to work together for the good of their communities.

Free Download Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe"
English | ISBN: 0300243871 | 2019 | 368 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe-a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book Award

Free Download Universities with a Social Purpose: Intentions, Achievements and Challenges (Sustainable Development Goals Series) by Kerry Shephard, V. Santhakumar
English | January 6, 2024 | ISBN: 9819989590 | 170 pages | MOBI | 0.58 Mb
This book is a narrative of conversations between two professors, with different backgrounds, academic disciplines, life experiences, and from different continents. It shows how their discourse has brought them to a single destination defined by a mutual interest in the social purposes of universities, and a hope in common that their academic efforts will somehow do good in the world.

Free Download The age of knowledge: the dynamics of universities, knowledge and society By James Dzisah, Henry Etzkowitz (editors)
2011 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 9004211020 | PDF | 2 MB
The Age of Knowledge emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, both within universities and for society more generally, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the constitutive social structures within which they are invariably produced, translated and reproduced. As the development of knowledge continues to be implicated in the habitual practices of the human social enterprise, visualizing these alterations requires the consideration of the social and materialistic contexts informing these transformations. This is necessary because the process of globalization has not only created new challenges for societies but has also unleashed a new political economy of knowledge within which different institutions must re-affirm their identity and place.