Universities and Reflexive Modernity : Institutional Ambiguities and Unintended Consequences

A book about the challenges and uncertainties facing today's university, a chronicle of recent and current changes in higher education in the world. There are many questions today that are sufficiently open to doubt and profoundly related to new developments, to justify our starting new enquiri...

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Auteur principal: Vlasceanu, Lazar
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Universities and colleges.
Educational change.
Education, Higher.
Civilization, Modern.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Universites > Europe.
Enseignement > Reforme > Europe.
Enseignement superieur > Europe.
Universities and colleges > Europe.
Educational change > Europe.
Education, Higher > Europe.
Europe.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:A book about the challenges and uncertainties facing today's university, a chronicle of recent and current changes in higher education in the world. There are many questions today that are sufficiently open to doubt and profoundly related to new developments, to justify our starting new enquiries, here and now, by looking freshly and more closely at the actual configurations and at their historical grounds, for providing the new standard account of the university today. Vlasceanu discusses the inherent contradiction between academia on the one hand, and expectations and regulations of the marke.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (204 pages).
ISBN:9789633864678

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