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- Book Title
- Education Crossing Borders: How Singapore and Mit Created a New U
- Publication Date
- 2020-08-11
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780262539036
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Education Crossing Borders : How Singapore and Mit Created a New University
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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The chronicle of a ten-year partnership between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry that shows cross-border collaboration in higher education in action. In this book, Dara Fisher chronicles the decade-long collaboration between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry to establish the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Fisher shows how what began as an effort by MIT to export its vision and practices to Singapore became an exercise in adaptation by actors on the ground. As cross-border higher education partnerships become more widespread, Fisher's account of one such collaboration in theory and practice is especially timely. Despite the prevalence of cross-border higher education initiatives, there is little understanding of how these partnerships work. This book fills the gap, offering an in-depth ethnographic case study that draws on organizational behavior literature for theoretical support. Fisher describes the sometimes divergent priorities of the Singapore government and MIT as planning began in 2007; chronicles how the founding faculty, staff, and students sought to shape the new university; shows that MIT left decision making to local actors on matters it regarded as low priority (only to discover later that some of these decisions did not align with MIT values); and examines SUTD's efforts to build an independent identity as Singapore's fourth major public university within the Singaporean higher education ecosystem. Finally, Fisher develops a framework for understanding how MIT's identity and practices were communicated to and then localized by Singaporeans, examining this in terms of politics, culture, institutions, and individuals.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262539039
ISBN-13
9780262539036
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038297377
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Education Crossing Borders : How Singapore and Mit Created a New University
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Lb2331.5.F57 2020
Reviews
"Fisher's book chronicles a bold experiment in which MIT partnered with the Singapore Ministry of Education to establish a new university. It offers valuable lessons about the prospects and perils of crossborder collaborations." - Jason Tan, Associate Professor in Policy, Curriculum & Leadership at the National Institute of Education, Singapore "A rich, informative account of one of MIT's transnational (ad)ventures, Education Crossing Borders offers up a firstrate case study of higher education partnerships. While shedding light on key plans and policies, the author raises a number of complicating factors -- historical, political, cultural, social, institutional, academic, and personal -- germane to the benefits and risks, opportunities and pitfalls, obstacles and achievements, of MIT's bold global outreach." - Philip Alexander, author of A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT
Table of Content
Part I: Framing--Establishing the Partnership and a Vision for "The University in the East" Chapter 1: The Fourth University Chapter 2: Beyond "02139"--MIT and the World Chapter 3: Arriving to a Conceptual Design Part II: Founding--Recruiting and Socializing the SUTD Pioneers Chapter 4: The SUTD Pioneers Chapter 5: Getting to "11:1"--Building a Faculty and Research Agenda Chapter 6: Finding the Risk Takers--Campus Building and the "Pioneer Batch" Part III: Formation--Realizing and Localizing the SUTD Vision Chapter 7: Fighting the Paper Chase--Developing SUTD's Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Academic Culture Chapter 8: "Stay Up 'Til Dawn"--Creating the SUTDent Cuture Chapter 9: "Its Campus Will Be in Changi"--Building and Managing a Cross-Border University Part IV: Fracture--Establishing SUTD's Identity Independent of MIT Chapter 10: SUTD on Its Own--Ending the Educational Collaboration with MIT Chapter 11: Building a Cross-Border University--Implications for Scholarship and Practice
Copyright Date
2020
Topic
Asia / Southeast Asia, Higher, History, Administration / Higher
Lccn
2019-040780
Dewey Decimal
378.5957
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, History
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