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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author AYERS, David F.
Title Community colleges and the politics of sociospatial scale
Publication year 2011
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 62 (2011) 3, S. 303 - 314
Inventory number 30898
Keywords Ausland : USA : einzelne Hochschulen ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Hochschule und Wirtschaft
Abstract In an analysis of 421 community college mission statements, I demonstrate how community colleges recontextualize a dominant discourse in which economic activity at the global scale transcends regulation, the nation-state lacks the moral authority to influence markets, and local communities have no choice but to adapt. Findings suggest that the community college has appropriated economic development as a mission priority and tacitly accommodated scalar relations typical of post-Fordism. On the other hand, a rival hypothesis suggests a competing trend in which colleges prepare and empower students to engage in sociopolitical processes at a global scale.(HRK / Abstract übernommen) Ayers, David F., E-Mail: dfayers@uncg.edu