Higher education and its communities /
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| Imprint: | Buckingham [England] ; Phildelphia, Pa. : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | viii, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4432102 |
Table of Contents:
- The Editor and Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Community: A Diverse Conceptualization and Realization
- Part 1. The Academic Community
- 2. Persistent Ghosts: Romantic Origins of the Idea of University Communities
- 3. Higher Education Communities and Academic Identity
- 4. The PhD Examination: An Exercise in Community-building and Gatekeeping
- 5. Becoming an Educator: Communities of Practice in Higher Education
- 6. Managerialism and University Managers: Building New Academic Communities or Disrupting Old Ones?
- 7. Territorial Disputes: The Impact of Quality Assurance on Relationships between Academic and Institutional Values
- 8. From Ivory Tower to Knowledge Factory? The Impact of Industry Links on Academics in a Chinese University and a British University
- Part 2. The Hinterland Community
- 9. The Role of Higher Education for Adults in their Communities: Nurturing Social Capital
- 10. Higher Education and Diversity: Regional Learning Infrastructures and Student Progression in the Post-Dearing Era
- 11. The European Community: A Case Study of Higher Education Policy Making
- 12. Lifelong Learning in the Workplace: A Comparison of France and the UK
- Part 3. The Future Community: Virtuality, Reality and Liberal Idealism
- 13. Virtual Learning Communities and the Role of Computer-mediated Communication Conferencing: Practices and Problems
- 14. The Virtual Learning Community: Informating the Learning Process with On-line Learning Environments
- 15. Culling Community from Conceptual Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Prospects for Building Higher Education Communities in the Twenty-first Century
- Appendix
- Index
