ERIC Number: EJ1040265
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 8
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Bury My Heart in Doha: Reflections on Performing Western Academia Overseas
Wright, Zachary
Journal of General Education, v63 n2-3 p113-120 2014
Critical reflection on the course of the Western university system has never been more important than at the juncture of its exportation around the world. The importation of Western academic institutions in the modernizing states of the Muslim world is fraught with contradictions, responding to the desire to craft a citizenship recognizable to the nation-state. Despite the relationship of Western universities to modernization as a disciplining project, these institutions also carry promise. Western universities overseas can hope to revive, in dialogue with their host societies, an alternative person-centered vision of learning shared by Western humanists and classical Islamic pedagogies alike.
Descriptors: Reflection, International Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Cultural Influences, Non Western Civilization, Western Civilization, Islamic Culture, Social Change, Technology Transfer, Adoption (Ideas), Ideology, Educational Philosophy, Individualized Instruction, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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