A Study On The Thoughts Of Altbach's Comparative Higher Education

Philip G. Altbach is a relatively well-known contemporary American educator and one of main founding fathers of comparative higher education research. He is one of the influential men in the area of comparative education theory by applying the model of "Patterns of Attachment" theory, which is that there is a center by which the western education system plays a key role while the other worlds orbits around it into the study of as many issues among the higher education. Under the theory of attachment frame he has made many researches into many levels of comparative higher education and specially to give more attention to the third world country's education development and to provide many enlightenment.The thesis delves into the areas as the world university system, the academy occupation, the problem of the student, the commercialization of internationally-spread higher education as well as the private ownership university, trying to show the whole picture of thought up to the readers.He thought the world university constitutes one "Center and Periphery" the structural relation, the western developed country is in the central position, all developed countries are at the edge position. This kind of not equal relations will exist for a quite long time in the future. In the analysis of higher education academic occupation, he is very unique in the analysis of higher education such the issues among the others like the function of academic stuff, the academic occupation and dilemma in the changing world, the center and periphery situation in the situation of study system. He also pay attention to the question such as the student's role in politics, oversea students, the commercialization and weakness of the higher education, the advantage and disadvantage of the private ownership university.