Universities and Reflexive Modernity

Institutional Ambiguities and Unintended Consequences

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

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 market on the other. Analyses demographic and other statistical characteristics of today's higher education. Examines the financial basis of universities in various countries, and describes current governance models. Finally the author sets up a new typology of universities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-10
Mått:155 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:236 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Central European University Press
ISBN:9789639776494

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Lazar Vlasceanu is Head of the Sociology Department, Bucharest University. He is also vice-president of the Romanian Council on University Research and member of the Council of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Coping with UncertaintiesChapter 1 The Clash Between Academic Traditions, Markets and GATS1.1. Introduction 1.2. Triggering the debate1.3. Higher education as an academic and/or as a service world. The place of “boundary objects”1.4. Searching for “boundary objects”1.5. Higher education between market and “public good”1.6. Academic mobility and certain other transformations in the academic space1.7. Correspondences between GATS modes of services trade and instances of academic mobility1.8. Academic mobility and trade in higher education1.9. A conclusionChapter 2 Demography and Higher Education. Risks and Prospective Approaches2.1. The demographic “tyranny of numbers” and some complementarities2.2. Numbers and flows of students2.3. Some complementarities2.4. Consequences of an approach2.5. Contextualizing demographic prospects2.6. Globalization: academic mobility and demographic migration reconsidered2.7. Higher education institutions at a crossroads Part II The New World of Higher EducationChapter 3 University and Development: A Vicious or a Virtuous Circle?3.1. Identifying connections3.2. Market culture and academic culture3.3. A change of paradigm: the “education industry” is emerging3.4. The corporate university and the “education industry”3.5. Is education industry a reality or a metaphor?3.6. Peaks in a maze of numbersChapter 4 Academic Transformation: Continuities and Discontinuities4.1. Identifying factors of change4.2. Identifying a new typology of universities4.3. The traditional university4.4. The market university4.5. The transitory or reflexive university4.6. Facing dilemmas: the need to choose Index