Towards a multiversity? universities between global trends and national traditions

All over the world new ideas and models emerge on how to organize the higher education sector and its institutions. The contributions in this volume identify the most influential transnational models and investigate their origins and mechanisms of dissemination as well as the resulting consequences...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Krücken, Georg (Editor), Kosmützky, Anna, editor (editor), Torka, Marc, editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2006
Bielefeld, Germany : [2015]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Science Studies
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  • Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions 7 Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University 19 The University in Europe and the World: Twentieth Century Expansion 45 Are Universities Specific Organisations? 63 State Models, Policy Networks, and Higher Education Policy. Policy Change and Stability in Dutch and English Higher Education 87 Diversity Matters: A Lesson from a Post-Communist Country 108 Doctoral Education in Europe: New Structures and Models 132 Is a Global Organizational Field of Higher Education Emerging? Management Education as an Early Example 154 From Managerial to Entrepreneurial: Universities and the Appropriation of Corporate-Based Paradigms. An Historical Perspective from Europe and the United States 179 Rationalization and the Utilization of Scientific Knowledge in German and U.S.-American Discourses 201 The Cifre PhDs: A Tool for Mediation between Laboratories and Firms in the Humanities and Social Sciences 217 Commodification or Rationalization? Yes, please! Technology Transfer Talk in the Canadian Context 235 About the Contributors 260