Rethinking the concept of 'western'

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 585-594

  Cousin, Glynis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cultural relativism; internationalisation; occidentalism; orientalism; pedagogic cultures; the west the rest; western non western

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857329481     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2011.598449     Document Type: Article

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