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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791357303321

Autore

Gaston Paul L

Titolo

The challenge of Bologna [[electronic resource] ] : what United States higher education has to learn from Europe, and why it matters that we learn it / / Paul L. Gaston ; foreword by Carol Geary Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Va., : Stylus, 2010

ISBN

1-00-344766-X

1-000-97847-8

1-000-97339-5

1-003-44766-X

1-57922-501-2

1-4416-5681-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

378.4

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Europe

Education, Higher - United States

Bologna process (European higher education)

Comparative education

Education and state - Europe

Education and state - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; AN EXPEDITIOUS OVERVIEW; 1. WHY PAY ATTENTION TO BOLOGNA?; 2. THE ROAD TO BOLOGNA; 3. POINT OF DEPARTURE; 4. WORDS TO ACTIONS: Bologna, Prague, Berlin; 5. URGENCY AND UNDERSTANDING: Bergen and London; 6. BEGINNING A NEW DECADE: Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve; 7. THE CHALLENGE FOR BOLOGNA: The Promise-and the Potholes; 8. THE CHALLENGE OF BOLOGNA: Access and Mobility; 9. THE CHALLENGE OF BOLOGNA: Structure and Sequence; 10. THE CHALLENGE OF BOLOGNA: Effectiveness and Accountability; 11. MEETING THE CHALLENGE: Improving on Europe's Example

APPENDIX: LIST OF ACRONYMSREFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H;



I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the ability of America's higher education system to position the country for competitiveness in a global economy, about its failure to broaden access and participation, or to respond to calls for accountability, and specifically about whether it is ready to address the redoubtable challenge that Bologna Process represents on all these issues. In this book Paul Gaston assesses the Process' accomplishments, weighing its strengths and weaknesses, and evaluates which features pose a threat, which we can learn from, and which may be inapprop