@article{1412184,
      recid = {1412184},
      author = {Fisher, Dara,},
      title = {Education crossing borders : how Singapore and MIT created  a new university /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {"The book chronicles the history of the collaborative  partnership between MIT and the Singapore Ministry of  Education to create the Singapore University of Technology  and Design (SUTD), the country's fourth public university.  Fisher describes how MIT faculty communicated the practices  and identity of the Institute as they developed and  executed the vision for SUTD, and how local actors at the  university reframed, modified, and adapted these practices  to fit the local political, cultural, and economic context  in Singapore. Fisher focuses on the early years of SUTD's  development. She looks at the Singaporean government's  intentions in founding a fourth university, and how prior  research partnerships with MIT provided the confidence on  both sides required to design an innovative curricular  structure for SUTD. Using the techniques of ethnography,  Fisher investigates the personal and professional  incentives for MIT professors to invest their time and  expertise in the project, how the early SUTD administration  managed to market the fledgling institution to Singaporean  students while dealing with temporary campus facilities,  and how the first cohorts of students negotiated the  unfamiliar pedagogy and curricular structures designed by  MIT"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1412184},
}