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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788543803321

Titolo

Academic identities, academic challenges? [[electronic resource] ] : American and European experience of the transformation of higher education and research / / edited by Tor Halvorsen and Atle Nyhagen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-283-43627-2

1-4438-3471-8

9786613436276

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HalvorsenTor

NyhagenAttle

Disciplina

378.4

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Europe

Education, Higher - United States

Universities and colleges

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title appears as: Academic identities--academic challenges?.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; WHAT THE RECENT HISTORY OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES OFFERS TO EUROPE; THE RHETORIC OF FUNCTIONALITY IN RECONSTRUCTING THE ACADEMIC WORLD; RECONSTRUCTING COLLECTIVE ACADEMIC IDENTITIES IN THE UK; THE CULTURAL AND DEMOCRATIC OBLIGATIONS OF UNIVERSITIES; THE NEW MODE OF INTERNATIONALISATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH; WHO CARES ABOUT EXCELLENCE? SOCIAL SCIENCES UNDER THINK TANK PRESSURE; AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE; THE DARK MATTER AND LITTLE STARS; REFORMING TOWARDS THE US UNIVERSITY; THE DOUBLE SHUFFLE OF UNIVERSITY REFORM

THE HARVARD REPORT AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL EDUCATIONBETWEEN COOPERATION AND COMPETITION; QUALITY ASSURANCE AND ACCREDITATION IN NORWEGIAN HIGHER EDUCATION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The university in Europe - as a central institution of society - is presently met Other many new expectations challenging established



practices and self-understandings of academics across Europe. In the European Union the higher education and research system has become a foremost tool of change. Current reforms across national higher education systems are seen as a potential for creating a European Higher Education Area as well as an opportunity to introduce EU policies and ideas addressing ho...