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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1011662
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 25
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
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University Rankings in Critical Perspective
Pusser, Brian; Marginson, Simon
Journal of Higher Education, v84 n4 p544-568 Jul-Aug 2013
This article addresses global postsecondary ranking systems by using critical-theoretical perspectives on power. This research suggests rankings are at once a useful lens for studying power in higher education and an important instrument for the exercise of power in service of dominant norms in global higher education. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Global Approach, Educational Research, Power Structure, Critical Theory, Criticism, Models, Neoliberalism, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Postsecondary Education, Politics of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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