Creating the European area of higher education : voices from the periphery / edited by Voldemar Tomusk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomusk, Voldemar, 1962-

Series:

Higher education dynamics ; v. 12.

Higher education dynamics ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Europe.

Education, Higher.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 313 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2006]

Summary:

Since 1999 European higher education has been engaged in the most radical reform seen during its 900 years of history. Out of the widely diverse national higher education systems and sub-systems a common European Higher Education Area is being created. This process, driven by the great ideas of establishing federal Europe, is full of tensions and conflicts often ignored in the official discourse. Expanding the project well beyond the borders of the European Union created the difficulty that relatively prosperous and high quality universities in the Western part find themselves side-by-side with much poorer universities of sometimes questionable quality in other parts of the continent. This has led to the rise of many controversial issues, as some of the sponsors of the Process, particularly the European Commission, see international competitiveness of European universities as its most significant goal The Process is being perceived as following the logic-of re-design of European knowledge products for the purposes of the world markets and certain elements of the production process. University communities - academic staff and students - however, sometimes feel that such an approach may not only carry the threat of compromising their vital interests but also call for the revision of the principles of academic autonomy as understood in Europe since the early 19th century.

This volume brings together a group of higher education researchers across Europe and looks into the implementation of the Bologna Process in the countries often attributed a peripheral status. Although it is also obvious that if the Process has a center, it stands external to higher education systems and universities it concerns. One can possibly find it either in Brussels or across the Atlantic in the United States, internationally perceived as the main competitor to European higher education. In addition to cultural and political issues the European higher education project faces in various countries, the volume pays particular attention to the role of students as well as the changing position of the intellectuals under its impact.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: COM(91) 349 final and the Peripheries of European Higher Education / Voldemar Tomusk 1

Chapter 2 What is the Use of Bologna in National Reform? The Case of Norwegian Quality Reform in Higher Education / Ase Gornitzka 19

Chapter 3 The Bologna Process in Finland: Perspectives from the Basic Units / Jussi Valimaa, David Hoffman, Mira Huusko 43

Chapter 4 Searching for the Sub-Plot Between the Lines of Bologna: Qualms and Conservatism of the French Academia in the Face of European Competition / Yann Lebau 69

Chapter 5 Emergent European Educational Policies Under Scrutiny: The Bologna Process from a Central European Perspective / Marek Kwiek 87

Chapter 6 The Bologna Process: An Estonian Perspective / Karmo Kroos 117

Chapter 7 What the Bologna Process says about Teaching and Learning Development in Practice: Some Experience from Macedonia / Dave Carter 141

Chapter 8 Restructuring Bulgarian Higher Education: The Bulgarian Strategy Towards The Bologna Declaration / Snejana Slantcheva 169

Chapter 9 Turkish Academics in Europe: An Autumn Tale / Deniz Bayrakdar 185

Chapter 10 The Challenge of Bologna: The Nuts and Bolts of Higher Education Reform in Georgia / Lika Glonti, Marine Chitashvili 209

Chapter 11 Pizza Bolognese a la Russe; The Promise and Peril of the Bologna Process in Russia / Voldemar Tomusk 227

Chapter 12 European Students in the Periphery of the Bologna Process / James Cemmell 251

Chapter 13 The End of Europe and the Last Intellectual: Fine-Tuning of Knowledge Work in the Panopticon of Bologna / Voldemar Tomusk 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402046138

1402046162

OCLC:

69482650

Publisher Number:

9781402046131

9781402046162