Academic Identities-Academic Challenges? American and European Experience of the Transformation of Higher Education and Research.

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The university in Europe - as a central institution of society - is presently met Other many new expectations challenging established practices and self-understandings of academics across Europe. In the European Union the higher education and research system has become a foremost tool of change. Cur...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halvorsen, Tor
Otros Autores: Nyhagen, Atle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
Temas:
Education, Higher > Europe.
Education, Higher > United States.
Universities and colleges.
Universities
Enseignement supérieur > Europe.
Universités.
Globalization.
Comparative politics.
Educational strategies & policy.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education.
Education, Higher
Universities and colleges
Europe
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; WHAT THE RECENT HISTORY OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES OFFERS TO EUROPE; THE RHETORIC OF FUNCTIONALITY IN RECONSTRUCTING THE ACADEMIC WORLD; RECONSTRUCTING COLLECTIVE ACADEMIC IDENTITIES IN THE UK; THE CULTURAL AND DEMOCRATIC OBLIGATIONS OF UNIVERSITIES; THE NEW MODE OF INTERNATIONALISATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH; WHO CARES ABOUT EXCELLENCE? SOCIAL SCIENCES UNDER THINK TANK PRESSURE; AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE; THE DARK MATTER AND LITTLE STARS; REFORMING TOWARDS THE US UNIVERSITY; THE DOUBLE SHUFFLE OF UNIVERSITY REFORM.
  • THE HARVARD REPORT AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL EDUCATIONBETWEEN COOPERATION AND COMPETITION; QUALITY ASSURANCE AND ACCREDITATION IN NORWEGIAN HIGHER EDUCATION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

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