Charles T. Clotfelter (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226110448
- eISBN:
- 9780226110455
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226110455.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that its position of global leadership will ...
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In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that its position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in other realms of international competition. This book addresses the variety of issues crucial to understanding this preeminence and this challenge. It examines the various factors that contributed to America's success in higher education, including openness to people and ideas, generous governmental support, and a tradition of decentralized friendly competition. The book also explores the advantages of holding a dominant position in this marketplace and examines the current state of American higher education in a comparative context, placing particular emphasis on how market forces affect universities. By discussing the differences in quality among students and institutions around the world, it sheds light on the singular aspects of American higher education.Less
In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that its position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in other realms of international competition. This book addresses the variety of issues crucial to understanding this preeminence and this challenge. It examines the various factors that contributed to America's success in higher education, including openness to people and ideas, generous governmental support, and a tradition of decentralized friendly competition. The book also explores the advantages of holding a dominant position in this marketplace and examines the current state of American higher education in a comparative context, placing particular emphasis on how market forces affect universities. By discussing the differences in quality among students and institutions around the world, it sheds light on the singular aspects of American higher education.
Shawn Bender
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520272415
- eISBN:
- 9780520951433
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520272415.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the close relationship between governmental support for community festivity and the spread of ensemble taiko groups throughout Japan. It describes three important factors that ...
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This chapter examines the close relationship between governmental support for community festivity and the spread of ensemble taiko groups throughout Japan. It describes three important factors that have contributed to the proliferation of taiko ensembles: the increasingly democratic nature of participation in community festivals in Japan, the decline in vitality of older shrine-based festivals, and the creation of new community festivals by local governments intent on enlivening community life. The chapter builds on the insights of an anthropological literature that has detailed changes in the patterns of local festival performance throughout Japan, but it challenges the notion that new festivals represent only the failed imitation of older, “authentic” festivals based in religious celebration. Rather, new patterns of festivity reflect new patterns of community organization within the context of global–local place making.Less
This chapter examines the close relationship between governmental support for community festivity and the spread of ensemble taiko groups throughout Japan. It describes three important factors that have contributed to the proliferation of taiko ensembles: the increasingly democratic nature of participation in community festivals in Japan, the decline in vitality of older shrine-based festivals, and the creation of new community festivals by local governments intent on enlivening community life. The chapter builds on the insights of an anthropological literature that has detailed changes in the patterns of local festival performance throughout Japan, but it challenges the notion that new festivals represent only the failed imitation of older, “authentic” festivals based in religious celebration. Rather, new patterns of festivity reflect new patterns of community organization within the context of global–local place making.
