Higher Education in Societies : A Multi Scale Perspective / edited by Gaële Goastellec, France Picard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goastellec, Gaële, editor.

Picard, France, editor.

Series:

Higher Education Research in the 21st Century, The CHER Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Universities are not only economic engines but societal ones. This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students’ access to universities. Structured around the central concept of the social contract, the growing recognition of the role of HE in its implementation, and regulations governing both individual and collective access, Higher Education in Societies: A Multiscale Perspective, explores the shifting mission of HE over the years from one thought to produce an elite to one of distributive justice by presenting research at the macro, meso and micro levels. In bringing together researchers from different countries, continents, and disciplines to study the same issue through a multiscale analysis, this book forms the starting line for further theoretical and methodological debate on the value of weaving together different approaches to the study of HE, including historical, comparative, sociological, organisational, institutional, quantitative, and qualitative.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Gaële Goastellec and France Picard

Introduction / Gaële Goastellec and France Picard

How Do University, Higher Education and Research Contribute to Societal Well-Being? / Michèle Lamont

A Persian Grandee in Lausanne / Sheldon Rothblatt

A New Social Contract for Higher Education? / Peter Maassen

Higher Education and Public Good / Simon Marginson

Defending Knowledge as the Public Good of Higher Education / Joanna Williams

Partisan Politics in Higher Education Policy / Jens Jungblut

Access, Equity and Regional Development / Rómulo Pinheiro

Shrinking Higher Education Systems / Madalena Fonseca , Sara Encarnação and Elsa Justino

Pathways to Higher Education in France and Switzerland / Jake Murdoch , Christine Guégnard , Maarten Koomen , Christian Imdorf and Sandra Hupka-Brunner

The Development of the Québec Higher Education System / France Picard , Pierre Canisius Kamanzi and Julie Labrosse

Engineering Access to Higher Education through Higher Education Fairs / Agnès van Zanten and Amélia Legavre

Conclusion / France Picard and Gaële Goastellec

About the Authors / Gaële Goastellec and France Picard.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789462097469

9462097461

OCLC:

890952629