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What kind of university? : international perspectives on knowledge, participation and governance / edited by John Brennan ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library LB2322.2 .W43 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Curricula.
- College students.
- Universities and colleges--Administration--Case studies.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--Administration.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1999.
- Contents:
- 1 What Kind of University? / John Brennan 3
- 2 Reflections of a Scholar-Gypsy / John Daniel 8
- Part 1 Knowledge and Curricula 19
- 3 Changing Research Practices / Michael Gibbons 23
- 4 The Link Between Knowledge and Learning / Janet Gail Donald 36
- 5 Student Learning and Academic Choice: The Rule of Coherence / David D. Dill 56
- 6 PhD or Professional Doctorate
- Is There a Choice? / Sybe B. Jongeling 71
- Part 2 Access and Participation 81
- 7 Against the Odds / Brenda M. Gourley 84
- 8 Making the Educational System More Equal / Jan de Vuyst 94
- 9 The Urban/Metropolitan University: Land-grant University of the Twenty-first Century / Joel E. Anderson 102
- Part 3 Governance 115
- 10 Why Universities Need Leaders: The Importance of Departmental Leadership / Li Bennich-Bjorkman 118
- 11 Changes in Institutional Governance Structures: The Dutch Case / Harry F. de Boer 128
- 12 Changing the Rules of the Game: The Transformation of Decision-making Patterns in Swiss Universities Since the Early 1990s / Juan-Francisco Perellon 144
- 13 Higher Education Development in Transitional Societies / Peter Darvas 160
- 14 Information Technology and Changing Roles in the Academy / Brian P. Nedwek 171
- 15 Autonomy, Governance and Accountability / John Sizer, Steve Cannon 193
- Part 4 Which Futures? 203
- 16 Restructuring the University for Technological Change / A. W. (Tony) Bates 207
- 17 The University of the Future
- Place, Process or Paradigm? / Karl S. Pister 229
- 18 The Future of the University: Reasonable Predictions, Hoped-for Reforms, or Technological Possibilities? / D. Bruce Johnstone 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335204295
- OCLC:
- 40545457
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