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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.4
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Europe; Education, Higher - United States; Universities and colleges
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HalvorsenTor NyhagenAttle
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Academic identities, academic challenges
• ISBN: 1-283-43627-2; 1-4438-3471-8; 9786613436276
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463296803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II