This book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye's theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it. It focuses on conceptualizing the Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education, which is embedded in the globalization of higher education, and analyzes the globalization of Chinese higher education reform.
Also, this book provides innovative and unique viewpoints on conceptualizing and mapping the globalization and internationalization of higher education, especially for current Chinese higher education (1949-2016). It discusses and illustrates cutting-edge concepts of global higher education, such as global learning, global competency, and global citizenship and refines them in the conceptualized soft power conversion model of higher education.
This book reports on and enriches the theoretical concept of global education, and provides practical insights into global learning, global citizenship and global competency for Chinese undergraduate students.

Proposes and conceptualizes a new concept of soft power in education Provides a unique viewpoint to analyze the globalization of higher education Clarifies the differences and similarities between globalization and internationalization of higher education

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Xudong Zhu is a professor at the Institute of Teacher Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. His work focuses on teacher education, comparative education, and the history of education, with an emphasis on transforming the teacher education system in China, comparative studies on national development and education, and the history of ideas of education in the west. Much of his work has involved the policy and practice of teacher education and teacher professional development, aspects that he has researched in China, with the World Bank, UNESCO, Intel, etc. He is the Secretary of the National Expert Committee of Teacher Education of MOE in China and Director of the Center for Teacher Education Research among the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences in University of MOE. He is also Director of the Institute of Teacher Education at Beijing Normal University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Teacher Education Research, China. Jian Li, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. While pursuing her Ph.D. at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, Dr. Li served as the Senior Research Consultant for the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Inclusion and Diversity and in associate researcher positions at the Project on Academic Success, Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University. Dr. Li's general areas of scholarship are education policy and law, and comparative education policy. She has published over 40 articles, monographs, and book chapters.

Inhalt
Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Section 1 Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education: Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 1 Introduction on Nye's Theory of Soft Power.- Chapter 2 Endogenous Complexity and Exogenous Interdependency: Internationalization and Globalization of Higher Education.- Chapter 3 Conceptualizing Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education.- Section 2 Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education: Empirical Studies.- Chapter 4 Mapping Soft Power of Chinese Higher Education.- Chapter 5 Globalization and Decentralization Forces in China's Higher Education (1953-2015).- Chapter 6 The Global Quest to Building World-Class University in China.- Chapter 7 Global Competitive Citizenship Education in China.- Chapter 8 Implementing Citizenship Education in China.- Chapter 9 Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States.- Chapter 10 Globalization of Higher Education in United Kingdom.- Chapter 11 Trends and Implications of International Student Mobility.- Section 3 Soft Power Conversion Model of Chinese Higher Education: Interviews of Chinese Experts.- Chapter 12 Soft Power of Chinese Higher Education: Interviews with Experts.