Overview
- Analyses the production and reproduction of inequalities in higher education in the Global South
- Based on research and interviews in seven low and middle-income countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Includes a coherent set of reflections based on the same methodological tools
Part of the book series: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development (DTSD, volume 17)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Growth of private education and inequality in the Global South
- Academic capitalism and inequality in the Global South
- Higher education policies and regulation in the Global South
- Comparative perspective on private education and inequality
- Private universities and inequality
- Heterogeneity of private higher education institutions
- Case studies of private higher education
- Sociology of higher education
About this book
Based on original findings from research carried out in six low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, this book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of private higher education and social and academic inequality, a topic largely unexplored in the social science literature, particularly on private higher education. Field surveys of different categories of actors in numerous private universities have combined common methods and tools in countries chosen for the differences in their social structures and the characteristics, organization and development of their private higher education systems. Based on these qualitative surveys, combined with available quantitative data on higher education, this book analyzes the production and reproduction of social and academic inequalities in countries as diverse as Argentina, Mexico, Peru, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and Vietnam.
Finally, the historical and social structuringof the private education systems in the selected countries provides the framework for analyses that go beyond the traditional higher education demand/supply and public policy approaches to explore the perspective of the actors – institutional administrators, teaching staff and students.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Etienne Gerard is a sociologist of education. He has conducted extensive research on schooling and knowledge in Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso), higher education internationalisation and international student mobility (Morocco and Mexico), and higher education and research policies (Mexico). His current interests focus on private higher education, particularly in Latin America and Mexico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Private Higher Education and Inequalities in the Global South
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Africa, Latin America and Asia
Editors: Etienne Gérard
Series Title: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54756-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54755-3Published: 25 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54758-4Due: 24 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54756-0Published: 23 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2543-0041
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Education, general, Higher Education, Population Economics