Understanding mass higher education : comparative perspectives on access / / edited by Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman

• Pubblicazione: London : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 378
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher
• Altri autori: TapperTed PalfreymanDavid <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 The rise of mass higher education; 2 Values, discourse and politics; 3 The politics of access to higher education in France; 4 Bildung or Ausbildung?; 5 The value of higher education in a mass system; 6 Access to Dutch higher education; 7 Access to higher education in the Nordic countries; 8 Mass higher education in Poland; 9 British higher education and the prism of devolution; 10 Access to higher education in England; 11 A transatlantic persuasion; 12 Conclusion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass higher education, with the United States leading the way. This text compares the experience of this very important social change within different nation states. Whilst recognising the critical global economic forces that appear to explain the international nature of the change, it sees the issues as rooted within different national traditions.There is a particular focus upon the discourse of access, especially the political discourse. The book addresses questions such as:* How has expansion been explai
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding mass higher education
• ISBN: 1-134-25644-2; 1-134-25645-0; 1-280-22504-1; 9786610225040; 0-203-00153-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784430603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Woburn education series.