The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics o

The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh by Ariful H. Kabir, Raqib Chowdhury

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Description This book problematises the political dimension of the privatisation of the higher education sector in Bangladesh.

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This book problematises contemporary realities of the political dimension of the privatisation of higher education in Bangladesh. By exploring the complexities of neoliberalism as an economic and ideological doctrine, a mode of governance, and as a policy package, it considers the 'post' attached to and hyphenated with 'colonialism' as more aspirational than achieved. Based on an interdisciplinary study involving contemporary theories from political and social sciences, economics, and the socio-economics of education, the book explores the unique ways in which Bangladeshi higher education has evolved over the past four decades, and the complex politics behind its privatisation. Through an empirically based account of how neoliberalism has worked its way through the higher education sector in the fastest growing economy in the South Asian context, it discusses how changes have been characterised by policy reforms, massification, and a sustained friction between control and autonomy in the university sector.The authors take a nuanced approach to their geo-political and onto-epistemological positionalities as diasporic and hybridised scholars by rejecting epistemological exclusion inherent in the colonial present and research conducted in such contexts. This position allows the reinforcement of a colonial present, theorising from within Global South decolonial and postcolonial research literature.This book contributes to discourses of 'globalisation from above' and 'globalisation from below' and sheds light on the often-idiosyncratic ways in which higher education reform has unfolded in South Asia. It will be of interest to comparative educators and those researching higher education policy and education developments in Global South nations.

Author Biography

Ariful H. Kabir teaches sociology of education and teacher education in the Institute of Education and Research at the University of Dhaka. He has Masters degrees in Sociology and in Education and a PhD in Education, and researches into micro-politics, network governance and education policy formulation, critical pedagogy, teacher education, higher education and international education.Raqib Chowdhury teaches TESOL, bilingualism and sociolinguistics in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. He has Masters degrees in English Literature and in TESOL, a PhD in Education, and researches into culture and pedagogy, teacher education, TESOL, international education, identity and critical ethnography.

Details ISBN 0367218712 ISBN-13 9780367218713 Title The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh Author Ariful H. Kabir, Raqib Chowdhury Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 156 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:132168965; About Us

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