Abstract
This paper presents an ethnographic study of one recently established university in
as an institution carrying out re-socialization so as to create a “new” and “real”
academic culture. It is an institution that explicitly takes a stand to teach its
students “like in the West”. However, the implementation of this imitation does not
support the dominant assumptions of cultural homogenization and standardization
in ‘globalized’ higher education. It appears that the major local cultural models not
likely to utilize these new forms. Academic actors (scholars, student and institutions)
maneuver the new “Western” and old “Soviet” models in the changing local hierarchical
environment, interpreting them and filling them up with the new contents.
as an institution carrying out re-socialization so as to create a “new” and “real”
academic culture. It is an institution that explicitly takes a stand to teach its
students “like in the West”. However, the implementation of this imitation does not
support the dominant assumptions of cultural homogenization and standardization
in ‘globalized’ higher education. It appears that the major local cultural models not
likely to utilize these new forms. Academic actors (scholars, student and institutions)
maneuver the new “Western” and old “Soviet” models in the changing local hierarchical
environment, interpreting them and filling them up with the new contents.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Production of Educational Knowledge in the Global Era |
| Editors | Julia Resnik |
| Publisher | Sense Publishers |
| Pages | 187-204 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789087905606 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2008 |
