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The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countriesreviewed by Moses Oketch - 2004 Title: The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countries Author(s): Philip G. Altbach (Editor) Publisher: Palgrave/MacMillan, New York ISBN: 1403960542, Pages: 338, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com The academic profession in developing and middle income
countries faces serious challenges, but so do academics everywhere.
The general dilemma is the same: pressures of mass enrollment,
curriculum relevance, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance
education, and the integration of new technologies. Clearly, these
are unprecedented pressures that have combined to place strain on
the academic professoriate, particularly in the developing and
middle-income countries, where resources are meager, economic
growth sluggish, and competing needs greater.
The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in
Developing and Middle-Income Countries provides a brilliant
overview of this arena. The book combines 11 chapters around the
theme of the academic professoriate, treating a variety of higher
education issues as they affect dons in developing and
middle-income countries. Case studies are drawn from Latin America,
Asia, Arab Gulf States, and Africa, but the issues discussed are
relevant everywhere. The authors admirably share a common
conceptual framework. The chapters vary in quality, but the breadth
of issues covered in this single volume is impressive. The most
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- Moses Oketch
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University E-mail Author MOSES O. OKETCH is an assistant professor of
Public Policy and Education in the
Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. His latest publication is “Affording the Unaffordable: Cost-Sharing in Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa,” published in the Peabody Journal of Education. His interests include economics of education and international higher education policy.
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