Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings
Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.12.014
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Hoyler, Michael
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作者：
Joens, Heike;Hoyler, Michael
本文通过对世界大学排名的批判性分析，为有关全球高等教育地理分布不均的争论做出了贡献。借鉴地理学、国际高等教育和文献计量学的最新研究成果，本文考察了在高等教育新自由主义背景下对公众产生重大影响的两个主要国际排名方案。我们认为，这些全球排名的出现反映了高等教育的地缘政治和地缘经济学从国家层面向全球层面的标量转变，优先考虑在特定地区和研究领域开展的学术实践和论文。我们的分析表明，排名标准的巨大差异如何不仅产生了必然的局部，而且产生了非常具体的全球高等教育地理位置。相比之下，这些显示了以知识为基础的经济中欧美老牌知识中心和亚太地区新兴知识中心之间更广泛的紧张关系。然而，对个人排名标准的分析表明，其他衡量标准和特定学科的视角将产生截然不同的高等教育图景。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
This paper contributes to emerging debates about uneven global geographies of higher education through a critical analysis of world university rankings. Drawing on recent work in geography, international higher education and bibliometrics, the paper examines two of the major international ranking schemes that have had significant public impact in the context of the on-going neoliberalization of higher education. We argue that the emergence of these global rankings reflects a scalar shift in the geopolitics and geoeconomics of higher education from the national to the global that prioritizes academic practices and discourses conducted in particular places and fields of research. Our analysis illustrates how the substantial variation in ranking criteria produces not only necessarily partial but also very specific global geographies of higher education. In comparison, these reveal a wider tension in the knowledge-based economy between established knowledge centers in Europe and the United States and emerging knowledge hubs in Asia Pacific. An analysis of individual ranking criteria, however, suggests that other measures and subject-specific perspectives would produce very different landscapes of higher education. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.