Universities and Reflexive Modernity : Institutional Ambiguities and Unintended Consequences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vlasceanu, Lazar.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Other Title:

Universities and Reflexive Modernity

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2010.

Summary:

A book about the challenges and uncertainties facing today's university, a chronicle of recent and current changes in higher education in the world. There are many questions today that are sufficiently open to doubt and profoundly related to new developments, to justify our starting new enquiries, here and now, by looking freshly and more closely at the actual configurations and at their historical grounds, for providing the new standard account of the university today. Vlasceanu discusses the inherent contradiction between academia on the one hand, and expectations and regulations of the market on the other. Analyses demographic and other statistical characteristics of today's higher education. Examines the financial basis of universities in various countries, and describes current governance models. Finally the author sets up a new typology of universities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I COPING WITH UNCERTAINTIES

CHAPTER 1 THE CLASH BETWEEN ACADEMIC TRADITIONS, MARKETS AND GATS

CHAPTER 2 DEMOGRAPHY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. RISKS AND PROSPECTIVE APPROACHES

PART II THE NEW WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION

CHAPTER 3 UNIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT: A VICIOUS OR A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE?

CHAPTER 4 ACADEMIC TRANSFORMATION: CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789633864678

9633864674

OCLC:

816860846