Pinpointing the intersecting concerns of higher education studies and island studies, this book interrogates the role of higher education development in addressing common small island concerns. It demonstrates how small island contexts disrupt normative discourses, understandings and practices in education policy, curricula and experiences.
Table of Content
Foreword: Some Random Reflections on Higher Education Institutions in Small Islands by Godfrey Baldacchino
1. Introduction – Holly Henderson and Rosie Alexander
Part 1: Scale, Smallness and Higher Education Development
2. Small but Complex: The Governance and Management of Public Higher Education Institutions – the Case of Malta – Colin Borg and Carmel Borg
3. Underdeveloped, Frontier and Outermost: Small Island Universities in Indonesia – Agustian Sutrisno and Hitendra Pillay
4. The Perceived Quality of Higher Education in Oceania: Autoethnographic Insights from the Regional University of the South Pacific – Sargam Goundar and Kim Andreas Kessler
5. Island Higher Education and Youth Migration: Retention, Attraction or Rotation? – Rosie Alexander
Part 2: Global Contexts for Island Higher Education
6. What Does Internationalization in Isolation Mean for Higher Education in Small Island States? – Daniela Craciun and Ariane de Gayardon
7. Insularity and Internationalization: The Case of Mauritius – Shaheen Motala-Timol
8. Glocalizing Higher Education and Decolonial Work in Oceania – David Taufui Mikato Fa‘avae and Jean M. Uasike Allen
9. Conclusions – Rosie Alexander and Holly Henderson
About the author
Holly Henderson is Assistant Professor of Education at the Centre for International Educational Research at the University of Nottingham, UK.
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