Bibliography of Foreign Students and International Study: An Overview and Bibliography (Praeger Special Studies in Comparative Education) [Hardcover]

Philip G. Altbach (Author), Kelley (Author), Y. G-M. Lulat (Author)

Book Description

Series: Praeger Special Studies in Comparative Education | Publication Date: May 15, 1985

The number of foreign students attending universities in the United States has expanded and their role has become a topic for research. Nations sending students to study in the U.S. are concerned with curriculum, how to reintegrate Western trained thinkers into the country's intellectual, professional, and social life, and the effects of "brain drain." This bibliographical volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research that has been done on these subjects and points out the areas which have thus far been neglected by the researchers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The book surveys research on international study issued during the past two decades and the relevant literature available in English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The essay portion places international study in historical perspective, reviews past research, highlights the gaps in the research, and sets the context for a political economy of international study. Topics include the attitudes of international students and the host population; recruiting, admitting, and advising foreign students; academic achievement; evaluation of exchange programs; health issues; cost-benefit analysis; and foreign policy issues for governments. The bibliography is a selective and partially annotated list of 2,800 published and readily available studies, books, journal and magazaine articles, reports, and dissertations. It is topically organized and includes literature on a wide range of issues such as women's studies, studies in Eastern Bloc countries and China, foreign students in Third World countries, study at the community college level as well as at the university level, the cultural environment, and finally, returning to and reentering one's home country.”–Higher Education Abstracts

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Praeger Publishers; annotated edition edition (May 15, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275900525
• ISBN-13: 978-0275900526
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,913,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rather than anchoring himself in a narrowly defined disciplinary location, Dr. Lulat is by training and by research inclination a social scientist--in the sense that his entire academic career (education, research, and teaching) has been, and continues to be, fundamentally multidisciplinary--as attested by the principal area to which most of his work belongs: Africana Studies (which comprises both African Studies and studies of the African Diaspora throughout the world). It is not without reason that in addition to his doctorate, he holds three masters degrees and a postgraduate certificate across several disciplines. Moreover, his educational career spans universities in four countries on three continents. His work, therefore, comes out of a pioneering and now well-established scholarly tradition of multidisciplinary research that has been the hallmark of Africana Studies. In keeping with one of his mantra's that "the present is always historical," Dr Lulat's current research focus is the political economy of world history from an African perspective that seeks to locate Africa's place in that history.