ISBN:
9789462097469
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 214 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Higher Education in Societies: A Multi Scale Perspective
Keywords:
Education, Higher Research
;
Education
;
Education
;
Tertiärbereich
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Gaële Goastellec and France Picard -- Introduction /Gaële Goastellec and France Picard -- How Do University, Higher Education and Research Contribute to Societal Well-Being? /Michèle Lamont -- A Persian Grandee in Lausanne /Sheldon Rothblatt -- A New Social Contract for Higher Education? /Peter Maassen -- Higher Education and Public Good /Simon Marginson -- Defending Knowledge as the Public Good of Higher Education /Joanna Williams -- Partisan Politics in Higher Education Policy /Jens Jungblut -- Access, Equity and Regional Development /Rómulo Pinheiro -- Shrinking Higher Education Systems /Madalena Fonseca , Sara Encarnação and Elsa Justino -- Pathways to Higher Education in France and Switzerland /Jake Murdoch , Christine Guégnard , Maarten Koomen , Christian Imdorf and Sandra Hupka-Brunner -- The Development of the Québec Higher Education System /France Picard , Pierre Canisius Kamanzi and Julie Labrosse -- Engineering Access to Higher Education through Higher Education Fairs /Agnès van Zanten and Amélia Legavre -- Conclusion /France Picard and Gaële Goastellec -- About the Authors /Gaële Goastellec and France Picard.
Abstract:
Universities are not only economic engines but societal ones. This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students’ access to universities. Structured around the central concept of the social contract, the growing recognition of the role of HE in its implementation, and regulations governing both individual and collective access, Higher Education in Societies: A Multiscale Perspective , explores the shifting mission of HE over the years from one thought to produce an elite to one of distributive justice by presenting research at the macro, meso and micro levels. In bringing together researchers from different countries, continents, and disciplines to study the same issue through a multiscale analysis, this book forms the starting line for further theoretical and methodological debate on the value of weaving together different approaches to the study of HE, including historical, comparative, sociological, organisational, institutional, quantitative, and qualitative
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; 1. HOW DO UNIVERSITY, HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETAL WELL-BEING?; INTRODUCTION; HOW PROFESSORS THINK; UBER EXCELLENCE AND THE CHALLENGES THAT PEER REVIEW MEET; SOCIETAL WELL BEING, HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH; NOTES; REFERENCES; 2. A PERSIAN GRANDEE IN LAUSANNE; INTRODUCTION; CHER MEMORIES: CHANGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, CHANGES IN RESEARCH; EDUCATION'S ABIDING MORAL DILEMMA: MERIT AND WORTH IN THE CROSS-ATLANTIC DEMOCRACIES, 1800-2006; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES
Description / Table of Contents:
3. A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION?INTRODUCTION; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; The German Research University and Its Scientific Structure; The Land-Grant Universities; Post-1945 Science Pact in the USA; The Post-1945 Science Pact in Europe; FINAL REFLECTIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 4. HIGHER EDUCATION AND PUBLIC GOOD: A Global Study; INTRODUCTION; The Conceptual Basis for an Empirical Study; HIGHER EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL SECTOR; A Worldwide Assemblage; Universities and States: The Comparative Dimension
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR IDENTIFYING PUBLIC GOODS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONEconomics; Political Theory and Communications Theory; Global Public Goods; THE EMPIRICAL TERRAIN; POLICY PROBLEMS; MOVING FORWARD; Starting Notion of Public Good; Measurability; Globalised Comparative Methods; CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS; REFERENCES; 5. DEFENDING KNOWLEDGE AS THE PUBLIC GOOD OF HIGHER EDUCATION; INTRODUCTION; THE PROBLEM OF DEFINITION; HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC GOOD BEFORE WORLD WAR TWO; HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC GOOD 1939-1963
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HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC GOOD 1963-1997HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC GOOD 1997-2007; WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO KNOWLEDGE?; INCULCATING VALUES; CONCLUSIONS; NOTE; REFERENCES; 6. PARTISAN POLITICS IN HIGHE REDUCATION POLICY: How Does the Left-Right Divide of Political Parties Matter in Higher Education Policy in Western Europe?; INTRODUCTION; HIGHER EDUCATION - A MORE SALIENT BUT LESS SPECIAL POLICY FIELD; HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS; The Re-distributive Characteristics of Higher Education Policy; The Cultural Conflict Dimension in Higher Education Policy
Description / Table of Contents:
HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY AND THE VARIETIES OF CAPITALISMCME and LME Higher Education Systems; SUGGESTION OF A RESEARCH DESIGN; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 7. ACCESS, EQUITY, AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A Norwegian Tale; INTRODUCTION; CONCEPTUAL BACKDROP; Access, Regionalisation, and Regional Development; EMPIRICAL SECTION (I): GOVERNING ACCESS; "More is Better" (Mid-50s-Early 70s); "More Is a Problem" (Mid-1980s-Mid-1990s); "More but Different" (Mid-90s-2013); EMPIRICAL SECTION (II): EQUITY, ACCESS, AND DEVELOPMENT; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION AND RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS; NOTES
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10.1007/978-94-6209-746-9
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