ISBN:
9781402040122
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXVI, 696 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Springer International Handbooks of Education 18
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Keywords:
Comparative education
;
Education and state
;
Education, Higher
;
Education
;
Education
;
Comparative education
;
Education and state
;
Education, Higher
Abstract:
Higher education is a global activity, built at the intersections of international knowledge networks in which institutions, faculty and students explore, create and share knowledge. This book provides a source of reference on essential topics of higher education. It combines several perspectives with a range of descriptions and analyses
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter; Introduction; The Academic Profession; Accountability and Quality Assurance: New Issues for Academic Inquiry; Curricula in International Perspective; Doctoral Education: Present Realities and Future Trends; Higher Education Finance: Trends and Issues; For-Profit Higher Education: U.S. Tendencies, International Echoes; Globalization and the University: Realities in an Unequal World; Governance and Administration: Organizational and Structural Trends; History of Universities; Internationalization: Concepts, Complexities and Challenges
Description / Table of Contents:
Higher Education Management: Challenges and StrategiesReflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII; The Private Fit in the Higher Education Landscape; Beyond Private Gain: The Public Benefits of Higher Education; Research and Scholarship; Student Politics: Activism and Culture; Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Rhetoric or Reality? Technology in Borderless Higher Education; Higher Education in the Arab World; Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
Higher Education in Developing CountriesEuropean Integration in Higher Education: The Bologna Process Towards a European Higher Education Area; Higher Education in French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin American University Transformation of the 1990s: Altered Identities?; Higher Education in Scandinavia; Higher Education in Southeast Asia in the Era of Globalization; Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa; Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Egypt; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Iran; Israel; Italy; Japan; Kenya; Korea; Mexico; The Netherlands; Nigeria; Poland; Russia
Description / Table of Contents:
South AfricaSpain; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States; Back Matter;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-4012-2
URL:
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