Overview
- First book-length work to comprehensively trace the history of education exchange and its relationship to the United States
- Updates and adds to past research on educational exchanges including recent events and trends, such as the effects of radical extremism on academic exchange with the Middle East, and the sweeping impact of online degrees
- Includes an overview of current and past state-sponsored programs to incentivize student mobility in the context of world events
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the origins of higher learning, and then traces education exchange to the aftermath of World War II, when the United States was internationally recognized as the epicenter of critical thinking and scientific discovery. As centers of learning arose in the ancient world, the gathering of students they drew invariably included “foreigners”—those not native to the immediate local area. Then as now, inquisitive minds compelled humans to explore, crossing borders to seek enlightenment in faraway places before returning to their homelands. Few societies have been so remote that they could not be affected by the acquisition of imported information. The number of international students and scholars in the United States now exceeds one million. This book narrates the complex and colorful history of intrepid individuals, inspired programs, and world events that have given direction to the path of education exchange, as well as the global dissemination of American scholarship.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Teresa Brawner Bevis is former Program Administrator for International Students at University of Arkansas, USA. Her previous books include Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East through the Twentieth Century (2016), Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East in the Twenty-First Century (2016), and International Students in American Colleges and Universities (2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A World History of Higher Education Exchange
Book Subtitle: The Legacy of American Scholarship
Authors: Teresa Brawner Bevis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12434-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12433-5Published: 26 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12436-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12434-2Published: 11 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 332
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, History of Education