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| ISBN: | 9783319134550
3319134558
331913454X
9783319134543
9783319134543
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 27, 2015).
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| Summary: | In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American), and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system of education, the author proposes an alternative model, "a university of the world". Contents: · Three concepts of the university in the globalization process · The dynamics of global social systems · Global challenges in the post-secondary educational sector as springboard for comparing systems · Convergence and divergence: current system dynamics in the post-secondary sector · Can there be fair chances in a world university system? · Conclusion Target readers: · Theorists of higher education · Policy makers of higher education · Administrators of higher education · Social scientists The author: Professor Dr. Dieter Lenzen is the president of Universität Hamburg, vice president of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) in Germany and the German universities' spokesperson for the HRK.
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| Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319134543
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-13455-0
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