ISBN:
9789048185344
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (X, 290p, digital)
Serie:
SpringerLink
Serie:
Bücher
Paralleltitel:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Changing Educational Landscapes
Schlagwort(e):
Educational tests and measurements
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Education, Higher
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Education
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Education
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Education, Higher
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Educational tests and measurements
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Bildungspolitik
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Schule
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Hochschule
;
Internationaler Vergleich
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Bildungspolitik
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Schule
;
Hochschule
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Kurzfassung:
Analyzing educational landscapes - the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector - is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic, social, cultural and geo-political circumstances of late modernity. Key aspects of the intricate, fluid and multifarious contemporary setting can always escape the researcher's necessarily selective observation. The contributors to this book share the view that it is wise, therefore, to take note of
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; About the Editor; About the Contributors; Changing Educational Landscapes: An Introduction; References; References; Part I Knowledge: Epistemological and Ideological Shifts; 1 The Owl of Athena: Reflective Encounters with the Greeks on Pedagogical Eros and the Paideia of the Soul (Psyche); The Question of This Modern European Symposium and the Comparative-Historical Approach; What Is Education and for What Purpose? The Classical Greek Paradigm of Paideia; The Paideia/Educational Culture of the Athenians; Psychagogia/Paideia of the Soul; The Soul (Psyche)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Paideia of the Soul/Psyche and Civic Virtue, an All- Polis Affair (tis olis politeias hypothesis)The Athenian Theatre and the Paideia of the Soul 0 Aristotle0s Katharsis of the Soul; Athenian Paideia -- An Epilogue; The Modern World/ Kosmos We Live in and Education; The Imagined European Knowledge Society; Education and Knowledge for the Knowledge Society; The Imagined Brave New European Knowledge Cosmopolis/Society: A Dehumanized Technopolis? A Nonhumanist Dystopia ? A Philistine Empire? A Modern Virtual Cave?
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Humanizing the Brave New European Knowledge Cosmopolis/Society Engaging and Learning from the Ancient Greeks, and the Re-enchantment of the Paideia of the Soul/PsycheThe Modernist Course of the Classical Concept of Liberal Humanistic Education and the Contemporary Crisis in the Paideia of the Soul; What Is to Be Done?; Epilogue '' ''Tending to the Soul'': Socrates and Today; References; 2 Implications of the New Social Characteristics of Knowledge Production; Introduction; Towards a Change of Traditions?; A Key Development: Massification in Higher Education
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Conflicting Modes of Knowledge ProductionReferences; 3 University Reform in Greece: A Shift from Intrinsic to Extrinsic Values; Introduction; The Emphasis on the Extrinsic Values in European Universities; An Account of the University Tradition in Greece; Evaluation and Quality Assurance Policies in Greek Universities in the 2000s: An Interpretation; Conclusions; Notes; References; 4 Universities and Pricing on Higher Education Markets; Marketisation Versus Increased Competition?; How Do Universities Set the Price of a Professor?; Academic Labour Markets as an Economy of Quality
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Different Mechanisms of PricingUniversities, Academics, Price and Quality; How Do Universities Set the Level of Fees?; The Expansion of the Market for Students: Introduction and Increase of Fees; Fees, a Price of What?; A Political Rationale; Fees to Compensate the Increase in Budget and the Decrease in Public Funding; The Price of Institutions to Which One Wants to Be Compared; Fees According to the Expected Individual Gains for the Students; Fees According to the Costs of Production; Fees According to Marketing Strategies; Fees to Make Profit; Conclusion; References
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Part II Access and Transitions
Anmerkung:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-8534-4
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