Towards a Multiversity?

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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Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag 2006.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions / Krücken, Georg / Kosmützky, Anna / Torka, Marc
  • Part I: Universities in Modern Society. Towards a General Understanding
  • Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University / Frank, David John / Meyer, John W.
  • The University in Europe and the World: Twentieth Century Expansion / Meyer, John W. / Schofer, Evan
  • Are Universities Specific Organisations? / Musselin, Christine
  • Part II: The Governance of Universities. Between State Regulations and Transnational Policy-Making
  • State Models, Policy Networks, and Higher Education Policy. Policy Change and Stability in Dutch and English Higher Education / Theisens, Henno C. / Enders, Jürgen
  • Diversity Matters: A Lesson from a Post-Communist Country / Boyadjieva, Pepka
  • Doctoral Education in Europe: New Structures and Models / Kehm, Barbara M.
  • Is a Global Organizational Field of Higher Education Emerging? Management Education as an Early Example / Hedmo, Tina / Sahlin-Andersson, Kerstin / Wedlin, Linda
  • Part III: University-Industry Relations. Historical Legacies and New Forms
  • From Managerial to Entrepreneurial: Universities and the Appropriation of Corporate-Based Paradigms. An Historical Perspective from Europe and the United States / Bertrams, Kenneth
  • Rationalization and the Utilization of Scientific Knowledge in German and U.S.-American Discourses / Meier, Frank / Müller, Andre
  • The Cifre PhDs: A Tool for Mediation between Laboratories and Firms in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Levy, Rachel
  • Commodification or Rationalization? Yes, please! Technology Transfer Talk in the Canadian Context / Coburn, Elaine
  • About the Contributors.