Gerardo Blanco Ramirez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 298329 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerardo Blanco Ramirez |
| NOMBRES | Gerardo Blanco |
| APELLIDO | Ramirez |
| FIRMA | RAMIREZ G B |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1577-3722 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Revisiting the Higher Education Institutional Myth
Utilising i nhabited i nstitutionalism as the theoretical lens, this study explores the meaning-making process underlying Chinese international undergraduates’ learning experiences at American universities, thereby offering a critical reassessment of the ISM phenomenon. Employing a qualitative methodology, the study engaged 12 Chinese international undergraduate students from a public comprehensive university in the northeastern United States. Fi…
Tracing and contrasting understandings of the public good in contemporary U.S. higher education
Conversations
To Learn but Not Live Together? The Early History of the University of British Columbia’s International House
The University of British Columbia (UBC) opened Canada’s first International House (I-House) in 1959 after a decade of activism from students and faculty. Students had demanded an I-House to help them find housing, and to ensure that “brotherhood may prevail,” as the I-House motto promised. The I-House campaign received support from community groups that raised the funds to build the UBC I-House. UBC’s administration wanted I-House as a social ce…
The impact of Covid‐19 on international student enrolments in North America
Both Canada and the United States enrol a significant number of international students. However, in March 2020, both countries closed their borders and increased restrictions to international travel due to COVID‐19, which had a direct impact on international students' ability to travel between their home countries and study destinations. This article examines the impact of COVID‐19 on international student enrolments by asking two related questio…
You want to be better in almost every aspect
LGBT students continue to be vastly invisible in the international higher education literature and often face hostile learning environments, both in the classroom and in the larger university environment. This study follows a narrative inquiry approach to explore and document the experiences of tongzhi–the most widely embraced identity label among individuals romantically and sexually attracted to people of their same gender in contemporary Chine…
CER Moderated Discussion on “‘Participation Does Not Equal Voice’
Global citizenship education as a pedagogy of dwelling
Global citizenship education is full of contradictions and tensions. Neither the global nor citizenship are neutral concepts, and both come with long histories of violence, oppression and exclusion. While global citizenship education has often been discussed from a policy- or institution-level perspective, it is necessary to examine closely the practices that bring this concept to life at the course and individual instructor level, as well as bey…
St Century Leadership Skills Practiced by School Leaders in Pakistan During Covid-19 Pandemic
21st-century leaders need strong leadership skills to effectively lead schools. They must use and implement 21st-century skills for long term change. The study aimed to identify the practices of secondary school leaders of Rawalpindi city about [recommended] 21st century 4 Cs leadership skills (Competence, Character, Compassion & Courage) during the pandemic of Covid-19. This was exploratory research following the quantitative research approach. …
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong At the time of writing this Forum, many nations, cities, and universities are still in lockdown due to the COVID
Exploring US Federal Policy Discourse on Refugee Access to Post-secondary Education
A qualitative exploration of motivations and challenges for implementing US accreditation in three Canadian universities
The adoption of US accreditation by non-US universities is one of the most salient manifestations of the internationalization of quality assurance in higher education. This process has been conceptualized as an exercise of global position taking by which institutions with limited financial and symbolic resources become associated with more prestigious institutions across national borders by sharing a common accreditation. However, the adoption of…
Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable
This article presents a collaboration among critical scholars of color grappling with the challenges of reimagining global university rankings (GURs) in an effort to rethink the field of comparative education from a decolonial perspective. We start with an empathetic review of scholarship on rankings. This effort evidenced that rankings are embedded and sustained within a broader dominant imaginary of higher education, circumscribed by what is de…
Jean Baudrillard’s radical thinking, and its potential contribution to the sociology of higher education illustrated by debates about ‘World-Class’ universities
This article presents an argument for re-reading Jean Baudrillard’s ideas considering their potential contribution to the sociology of higher education, particularly in relation to contemporary debates about ‘world-class’ universities. In order to apply Baudrillard’s ideas, China’s commitment to the development of ‘world-class’ universities is presented as a case study. Radical thinking, as understood by Baudrillard, relies on ambivalence and fas…
Resisting the Neoliberalization of Higher Education
In this article, we explore commodities and consumption, two concepts that are central to critiques of the neoliberal university. By engaging with these concepts, we explore the limits of neoliberal logic. We ground this conceptual entanglement in Marxist and post-Marxist traditions given our understanding of neoliberalism both as an extension of and as a meaningfully different form of capitalism. As colleges and universities enact neoliberal eco…
Value for Money and Employability
Translating quality in higher education
This article reports on findings from a sociolinguistic qualitative study exploring inter-discursive relations manifested in the approaches and strategies that regional accrediting agencies in the United States utilise when recognising foreign universities. Even as most countries have developed national quality assurance systems and whilst international rankings comparing institutions globally are available, a growing number of universities aroun…
Learning Abroad or Just Going Abroad? International Education In Opposite Sides of the Border
International education, particularly through study abroad experiences, has the potential of preparing students for a globally interconnected world. While challenging, it is necessary to translate aspirations of global citizenship into educational programs and assessing their effectiveness. A necessary step in such process consists in taking a close and critical look at the challenges and possibilities for the development of global citizenship th…
Many choices, one destination
Amidst global competition in higher education, colleges and universities adopt strategies that mimic and adapt business practices. Branding is now a widespread practice in higher education; multimodal advertisement is a manifestation of emerging branding strategies for universities. While the visibility of brands in higher education has grown substantially in recent years, its empirical study has lagged. This article reports on the findings from …
US accreditation in Mexico
Quality practices in higher education involve more than mere compliance with standards and technical mandates; given the complexity of the decisions involved in quality in higher education, this concept, quality, can be analyzed as symbol and performance. This paper utilizes translation as heuristic to analyze the implementation of US institutional accreditation in Mexico. Such analysis unearths the power relations that underpin the emergent inte…
Resisting the Neoliberalization of Higher Education
In this article, we explore commodities and consumption, two concepts that are central to critiques of the neoliberal university. By engaging with these concepts, we explore the limits of neoliberal logic. We ground this conceptual entanglement in Marxist and post-Marxist traditions given our understanding of neoliberalism both as an extension of and as a meaningfully different form of capitalism. As colleges and universities enact neoliberal eco…
Exploring US Federal Policy Discourse on Refugee Access to Post-secondary Education
Many choices, one destination
Amidst global competition in higher education, colleges and universities adopt strategies that mimic and adapt business practices. Branding is now a widespread practice in higher education; multimodal advertisement is a manifestation of emerging branding strategies for universities. While the visibility of brands in higher education has grown substantially in recent years, its empirical study has lagged. This article reports on the findings from …
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong At the time of writing this Forum, many nations, cities, and universities are still in lockdown due to the COVID
US accreditation in Mexico
Quality practices in higher education involve more than mere compliance with standards and technical mandates; given the complexity of the decisions involved in quality in higher education, this concept, quality, can be analyzed as symbol and performance. This paper utilizes translation as heuristic to analyze the implementation of US institutional accreditation in Mexico. Such analysis unearths the power relations that underpin the emergent inte…
Global citizenship education as a pedagogy of dwelling
Global citizenship education is full of contradictions and tensions. Neither the global nor citizenship are neutral concepts, and both come with long histories of violence, oppression and exclusion. While global citizenship education has often been discussed from a policy- or institution-level perspective, it is necessary to examine closely the practices that bring this concept to life at the course and individual instructor level, as well as bey…
Translating quality in higher education
This article reports on findings from a sociolinguistic qualitative study exploring inter-discursive relations manifested in the approaches and strategies that regional accrediting agencies in the United States utilise when recognising foreign universities. Even as most countries have developed national quality assurance systems and whilst international rankings comparing institutions globally are available, a growing number of universities aroun…
Learning Abroad or Just Going Abroad? International Education In Opposite Sides of the Border
International education, particularly through study abroad experiences, has the potential of preparing students for a globally interconnected world. While challenging, it is necessary to translate aspirations of global citizenship into educational programs and assessing their effectiveness. A necessary step in such process consists in taking a close and critical look at the challenges and possibilities for the development of global citizenship th…
Many choices, one destination
Amidst global competition in higher education, colleges and universities adopt strategies that mimic and adapt business practices. Branding is now a widespread practice in higher education; multimodal advertisement is a manifestation of emerging branding strategies for universities. While the visibility of brands in higher education has grown substantially in recent years, its empirical study has lagged. This article reports on the findings from …
US accreditation in Mexico
Quality practices in higher education involve more than mere compliance with standards and technical mandates; given the complexity of the decisions involved in quality in higher education, this concept, quality, can be analyzed as symbol and performance. This paper utilizes translation as heuristic to analyze the implementation of US institutional accreditation in Mexico. Such analysis unearths the power relations that underpin the emergent inte…
Value for Money and Employability
Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable
This article presents a collaboration among critical scholars of color grappling with the challenges of reimagining global university rankings (GURs) in an effort to rethink the field of comparative education from a decolonial perspective. We start with an empathetic review of scholarship on rankings. This effort evidenced that rankings are embedded and sustained within a broader dominant imaginary of higher education, circumscribed by what is de…
Jean Baudrillard’s radical thinking, and its potential contribution to the sociology of higher education illustrated by debates about ‘World-Class’ universities
This article presents an argument for re-reading Jean Baudrillard’s ideas considering their potential contribution to the sociology of higher education, particularly in relation to contemporary debates about ‘world-class’ universities. In order to apply Baudrillard’s ideas, China’s commitment to the development of ‘world-class’ universities is presented as a case study. Radical thinking, as understood by Baudrillard, relies on ambivalence and fas…
Resisting the Neoliberalization of Higher Education
In this article, we explore commodities and consumption, two concepts that are central to critiques of the neoliberal university. By engaging with these concepts, we explore the limits of neoliberal logic. We ground this conceptual entanglement in Marxist and post-Marxist traditions given our understanding of neoliberalism both as an extension of and as a meaningfully different form of capitalism. As colleges and universities enact neoliberal eco…
A qualitative exploration of motivations and challenges for implementing US accreditation in three Canadian universities
The adoption of US accreditation by non-US universities is one of the most salient manifestations of the internationalization of quality assurance in higher education. This process has been conceptualized as an exercise of global position taking by which institutions with limited financial and symbolic resources become associated with more prestigious institutions across national borders by sharing a common accreditation. However, the adoption of…
Exploring US Federal Policy Discourse on Refugee Access to Post-secondary Education
St Century Leadership Skills Practiced by School Leaders in Pakistan During Covid-19 Pandemic
21st-century leaders need strong leadership skills to effectively lead schools. They must use and implement 21st-century skills for long term change. The study aimed to identify the practices of secondary school leaders of Rawalpindi city about [recommended] 21st century 4 Cs leadership skills (Competence, Character, Compassion & Courage) during the pandemic of Covid-19. This was exploratory research following the quantitative research approach. …
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong At the time of writing this Forum, many nations, cities, and universities are still in lockdown due to the COVID
CER Moderated Discussion on “‘Participation Does Not Equal Voice’
Global citizenship education as a pedagogy of dwelling
Global citizenship education is full of contradictions and tensions. Neither the global nor citizenship are neutral concepts, and both come with long histories of violence, oppression and exclusion. While global citizenship education has often been discussed from a policy- or institution-level perspective, it is necessary to examine closely the practices that bring this concept to life at the course and individual instructor level, as well as bey…
The impact of Covid‐19 on international student enrolments in North America
Both Canada and the United States enrol a significant number of international students. However, in March 2020, both countries closed their borders and increased restrictions to international travel due to COVID‐19, which had a direct impact on international students' ability to travel between their home countries and study destinations. This article examines the impact of COVID‐19 on international student enrolments by asking two related questio…
You want to be better in almost every aspect
LGBT students continue to be vastly invisible in the international higher education literature and often face hostile learning environments, both in the classroom and in the larger university environment. This study follows a narrative inquiry approach to explore and document the experiences of tongzhi–the most widely embraced identity label among individuals romantically and sexually attracted to people of their same gender in contemporary Chine…
Conversations
To Learn but Not Live Together? The Early History of the University of British Columbia’s International House
The University of British Columbia (UBC) opened Canada’s first International House (I-House) in 1959 after a decade of activism from students and faculty. Students had demanded an I-House to help them find housing, and to ensure that “brotherhood may prevail,” as the I-House motto promised. The I-House campaign received support from community groups that raised the funds to build the UBC I-House. UBC’s administration wanted I-House as a social ce…
Revisiting the Higher Education Institutional Myth
Utilising i nhabited i nstitutionalism as the theoretical lens, this study explores the meaning-making process underlying Chinese international undergraduates’ learning experiences at American universities, thereby offering a critical reassessment of the ISM phenomenon. Employing a qualitative methodology, the study engaged 12 Chinese international undergraduate students from a public comprehensive university in the northeastern United States. Fi…
Tracing and contrasting understandings of the public good in contemporary U.S. higher education
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Higher education (14 obras) · Higher Education Governance and Development (13 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras)