Universities and reflexive modernity : institutional ambiguities and unintended consequences /

Universities and reflexive modernity : institutional ambiguities and unintended consequences /

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Author / Creator:Vlăsceanu, Lazăr.
Imprint:Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2010.
Description:194 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Education, Higher -- Europe.
Educational change -- Europe.
Universities and colleges -- Europe.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Modern.
Education, Higher.
Educational change.
Universities and colleges.
Europe.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7978569
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ISBN:9789639776494 (pbk.)
9639776491 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Coping with Uncertainties
  • Chapter 1. The Clash between Academic Traditions, Markets and Gats
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Triggering the debate
  • 1.3. Higher education as an academic and/or as a service world: The place of "boundary objects"
  • 1.4. Searching for "boundary objects"
  • 1.5. Higher education between market and "public good"
  • 1.6. Academic mobility and certain other transformations in the academic space
  • 1.7. Correspondences between GATS modes of services, trade and instances of academic mobility
  • 1.8. Academic mobility and trade in higher education
  • 1.9. A conclusion
  • Chapter 2. Demography and Higher Education. Risks and Prospective Approaches
  • 2.1. The demographic "tyranny of numbers" and some complementarities
  • 2.2. Numbers and flows of students
  • 2.3. Some complementarities
  • 2.4. Consequences of an approach
  • 2.5. Contextualizing demographic prospects
  • 2.6. Globalization: Academic mobility and demographic migration reconsidered
  • 2.7. Higher education institutions at a crossroads
  • Part II. The New World of Higher Education
  • Chapter 3. University and Development: A Vicious or a Virtuous Circle?
  • 3.1. Identifying connections
  • 3.2. Market culture and academic culture
  • 3.3. A change of paradigm: The "education industry" is emerging
  • 3.4. The corporate university and the "education industry"
  • 3.5. Is education industry a reality or a metaphor?
  • 3.6. Peaks in a maze of numbers
  • Chapter 4. Academic Transformation: Continuities and Discontinuities
  • 4.1. Identifying factors of change
  • 4.2. Identifying a new typology of universities
  • 4.3. The traditional university
  • 4.4. The market university
  • 4.5. The transitory or reflexive university
  • 4.6. Facing dilemmas: The need to choose
  • Index

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