Problems in Comparative Higher Education: Political Economy, Political Sociology and Postmodernism.

Explores how modern and postmodern theory (including Mann's political sociology of power, Foucauldian theory of knowledge/power regimes, and feminist theory) might be used to examine problems in comparative higher education, including how globalization is related to shifting power/knowledge regimes in which comparative higher education is embedded. Suggests methods that might be used when drawing on these theories for research. (EV)