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Higher education in international perspective: A survey and bibliography
World Development, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 673-676, Pergamon Journals Ltd. Printed in Great Britain.
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Book Notes GUY GRAN
Book Review Editor
REFERENCE:
EDUCATION THERETO
use for those seeking to design a research itinerary or pursue a particularly scarce publication. Development students will find many entries with a relevant geographical or functional specialization. It would be useful to design a less expensive purely development focussed volume from this data base and add to it ways to gain access to more collections of the PVO universe, the independent scholarly world, and the social change world.
AND ACCESS
Altbach, Philip G., and Kelly. David H. (1985) Higher Educuiion In Internutional Perspective: A Survey and Bibliography. London and New York: Mansell (583 pp., hardback. $67). A longtime chronicler of international education and a colleague have completed a 1982 UNESCO mandate. The volume begins with two long review essays on institutional actors and research trends in Western countries and in European socialist societies. The former finds still “little international consciousness in the the latter, by a Polish research community”: scholar, makes explicit what the West mystifies, the role of education in shaping social and political consciousness. The bulk of the volume is an unannotated listing of 197@83 material, 6,900 items in Western languages. Each of 23 topical sections is divided by X-9 regional foci. Books and articles are listed separately; a few dissertations and a little organizational literature are also included. There is no author index. The authors deplore the Western bias and difficulties of retrieving Third World and socialist bloc material. But then the “world system of higher education which is dominated by the metropolitan institutions” is a conscious social creation.
Gill, Kay, Ed. (1985. 3rd edn) Government Research Directory. Detroit: Gale Research Co. (675 pp.. hardback, $325). Here is a descriptive inventory of some 2.300 unclassified research efforts going on in the Executive Branch of the US government at the midpoint of the Reagan administration. Entries are listed by department or agency and provide varying degrees of specificity on points of access, research focus. publications, special facilities, and background data. The Agency for International Development is omitted: some may find the detailed treatment of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health and Human Services of some value. Name, keyword and geographical indices complete the volume. Very few of the entries appear to have anything to do with development properly speaking. This is not surprising for this volume is chronicling the activities of the dominant actor in the global war/growth system. If one were instead interested in research on the opposite, the peace/development system. such a research directory would have a very different institutional focus.
Darnay. Brigitte. Ed. (1985. 9th edn) Subject Directory of Special Libraries and Informution Centers. Detroit: Gale Research Co. (5 vols., hardback, $625/set. $14S/volume). This set provides a nice, practical introduction to about 17,500 North American libraries maintained by academe, corporations, governments, newspapers, and nonprofit groups. This reviewer sampled Volume 4 (social sciences and humanities) and Volume 5 (science and technology). Each entry lists collection size, means of access, people to contact, relevant special features and services. Each volume has a half dozen major chapters and a name index; but it is the detailed subject index at the end which will be of principal
Hoopes, David, Ed. (1984) Gloh~ll Guide to lnternutionul Education. New York: Facts on File (704 pp., hardback, $75). This is an overly ambitious survey with visible strengths and weaknesses. The intent was to create a sourcebook and directory. Hoopes seeks to cover international education activities in and out of academe. reference works, publishers, journals. funding sources, and country related 673
19X6.
Book Notes GUY GRAN
Book Review Editor
REFERENCE:
EDUCATION THERETO
use for those seeking to design a research itinerary or pursue a particularly scarce publication. Development students will find many entries with a relevant geographical or functional specialization. It would be useful to design a less expensive purely development focussed volume from this data base and add to it ways to gain access to more collections of the PVO universe, the independent scholarly world, and the social change world.
AND ACCESS
Altbach, Philip G., and Kelly. David H. (1985) Higher Educuiion In Internutional Perspective: A Survey and Bibliography. London and New York: Mansell (583 pp., hardback. $67). A longtime chronicler of international education and a colleague have completed a 1982 UNESCO mandate. The volume begins with two long review essays on institutional actors and research trends in Western countries and in European socialist societies. The former finds still “little international consciousness in the the latter, by a Polish research community”: scholar, makes explicit what the West mystifies, the role of education in shaping social and political consciousness. The bulk of the volume is an unannotated listing of 197@83 material, 6,900 items in Western languages. Each of 23 topical sections is divided by X-9 regional foci. Books and articles are listed separately; a few dissertations and a little organizational literature are also included. There is no author index. The authors deplore the Western bias and difficulties of retrieving Third World and socialist bloc material. But then the “world system of higher education which is dominated by the metropolitan institutions” is a conscious social creation.
Gill, Kay, Ed. (1985. 3rd edn) Government Research Directory. Detroit: Gale Research Co. (675 pp.. hardback, $325). Here is a descriptive inventory of some 2.300 unclassified research efforts going on in the Executive Branch of the US government at the midpoint of the Reagan administration. Entries are listed by department or agency and provide varying degrees of specificity on points of access, research focus. publications, special facilities, and background data. The Agency for International Development is omitted: some may find the detailed treatment of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health and Human Services of some value. Name, keyword and geographical indices complete the volume. Very few of the entries appear to have anything to do with development properly speaking. This is not surprising for this volume is chronicling the activities of the dominant actor in the global war/growth system. If one were instead interested in research on the opposite, the peace/development system. such a research directory would have a very different institutional focus.
Darnay. Brigitte. Ed. (1985. 9th edn) Subject Directory of Special Libraries and Informution Centers. Detroit: Gale Research Co. (5 vols., hardback, $625/set. $14S/volume). This set provides a nice, practical introduction to about 17,500 North American libraries maintained by academe, corporations, governments, newspapers, and nonprofit groups. This reviewer sampled Volume 4 (social sciences and humanities) and Volume 5 (science and technology). Each entry lists collection size, means of access, people to contact, relevant special features and services. Each volume has a half dozen major chapters and a name index; but it is the detailed subject index at the end which will be of principal
Hoopes, David, Ed. (1984) Gloh~ll Guide to lnternutionul Education. New York: Facts on File (704 pp., hardback, $75). This is an overly ambitious survey with visible strengths and weaknesses. The intent was to create a sourcebook and directory. Hoopes seeks to cover international education activities in and out of academe. reference works, publishers, journals. funding sources, and country related 673