Higher Education in the World Knowledge Exchange: Emerging Organizational Models
Author(s):
Kazhal Shaikhahmadi (presenting / submitting)
Conference:
ECER 2014
Network:
21. Emerging Researchers' Group (for presentation at Emerging Researchers' Conference)
Format:
Paper

Session Information

ERG SES H 01, Higher Education

Paper Session

Time:
2014-09-02
11:00-12:30
Room:
FPCEUP - 113
Chair:
Norman Brady

Contribution

It is important to study the changing around higher education in a local or world level. In fact, the modernization between countries affects universities in guiding them toward organization with international, trans-national, and supra-national roles. To some reasons, it is vital to investigate and comprehend the effects of recent changes on modern higher education organizational roles and the new structures that are formatting:

First, contribution in the world economic on the knowledge; that is, an important and necessary policy in developing-countries (Coulby & Zambeta, 2005).

Second, among the universities performances is knowledge producing through studying and transferring of that knowledge by means of the students.

Third, developing higher education in many countries that have young graduated students. Therefore, necessary polices concentrate on the below questions:

What is happening in universities?

-        What experiences the students and professors should have via this process of changing?

The three items mentioned above are the main reason of higher education selection in world roles and making a commercial role of it; again, its effect on formatting and developing new structures of higher education are the main subject of this article.

Method

The research project is according to the aim of the study; that is, multi-cases and descriptive-analytical method and it is designed and performed in higher educational department. This method provides a suitable opportunity to study and inquire a single subject in an independent position and compare it by other subjects. Multi-cases study is not sampler but the research repetition in which provides Analytic generalization of Results. The multi-cases study is done according to generalization and using descriptive- analytical strategy. This strategy describes the cases, uses groups, patterns or theories in a special subject (Tennant et al., 2009; Creswel, 2008). To gather the needed information, the library resource study is used; that is, studying official educational documents, results of studies and researches, reports, seminars, tables, and data banks; and, a real summary of the recent discussion and its main aspects in different countries are used as well. In addition, analyzing the documents and papers includes review, category, tabulation or other form of information to search the subject (Cohen et al., 2010; Luttrell, 2009). As a result, the recent documents and papers are analyzed. However, the Process of Cyclic Analysis, including Data Reduction, is used to pay much more attention to organize and describe the data. Data Reduction involves a part of data analyses that shortens the data by selecting, concentration, and converting them to comprehend easily. Other levels include exhibition and concluding the data.

Expected Outcomes

This study concentrates on spatial, historical, and financial power to investigate globalized educational situation. Meanwhile, some definite geometry makes some changes in organizational and experimental higher educational that transform form east to west. So, there are distinct geographies of knowledge which pass via the power geometry; and, now they are design some questions about definition, production, control, and using produced academic knowledge in different parts of the world. Now, what type of sources can be found in transmitting higher educational geography? How national systems find their status in the world? And, what are the result of these situations for higher education experiences and local relations? How universities and performers (those who work with scientific capitalism) react with knowledge trust? How knowledge consumers evaluate current production of knowledge? To answer these questions, this study tries to rely on four filed included below: University production and return; Knowledge security; Demand for knowledge (marketing and consuming); and Supra-national currents. In fact, this study tries to watch out the relationship between knowledge and power, paying attention to place imbalances, knowledge geography, power geometry, comprehending new experiences, and production relations to transform knowledge in global higher education. To reach this educational goal we face a challenge to develop the relations with learners that have got some special characteristics: up-to-date and more dynamic social situations. To face this challenge, both geography of knowledge and power geometry may change their shape.

References

Brown, P., Lauder, H., and Ashton, D. (2008) Education, Globalization & the Knowledge Economy. A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme: UK. http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase111/assoc-brown.html Cohen, L., Manion, L. and Morrison, K. (2010) Research methods in Education: RoutledgePress . Creswell, J. W. (2008) Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluation Quantitative and qualitative Research .UK : Pearson Press. Hanna, D, E. (1998) Higher Education in an Era of Digital Competition: Emerging Organizational Models: JALN press. Luijten-Lub, A. (2007) Changes in Internationalization: How Higher Education Institution Respond to Internationalization, Europeanization and Globalization, The Netherlands: Twente University Press . Mathisen, G. (2007) Shaping the Global Market of Higher Education Through Quality Promotion. Nedeva, M. (2007) New Tricks and Old Dogs? The Third Mission and the Re-production of the University, London and New York: Routledge . Tennant, M., Mcmullen, C. and Kaczynski, D. (2009) Teaching, Learning and research in Higher Education: RoutledgePress . Verger, A. (2007) The Constitution of a New Global Regime: Higher Education in the GATS/WTO Framework, London and New York: Routledge . Witte, J. K. (2006) Change of degrees and Degrees of Change: Comparing Adaptation of European Higher education Systems in The Context of Bologna Process, PhD Thesis, The Netherlands: Twente University Press .

Author Information

Kazhal Shaikhahmadi (presenting / submitting)
Payam-e Noor University, Iran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

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