Universities and Reflexive Modernity: Institutional Ambiguities and Unintended Consequences

Lazar Vlasceanu

Published by Central European University Press 2010

Universities and Reflexive Modernity

Institutional Ambiguities and Unintended Consequences

Lazar Vlasceanu

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633864678

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About this book

A book about the challenges and uncertainties facing today's university, a chronicle of recent and current changes in higher education in the world. There are many questions today that are sufficiently open to doubt and profoundly related to new developments, to justify our starting new enquiries, here and now, by looking freshly and more closely at the actual configurations and at their historical grounds, for providing the new standard account of the university today.

Vlasceanu discusses the inherent contradiction between academia on the one hand, and expectations and regulations of the market on the other. Analyses demographic and other statistical characteristics of today's higher education. Examines the financial basis of universities in various countries, and describes current governance models. Finally the author sets up a new typology of universities.

Author / Editor information

Vlasceanu Lazar :

Lazăr Vlăsceanu is Head of the Sociology Department, Bucharest University. He is also vice-president of the Romanian Council on University Research and member of the Council of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I COPING WITH UNCERTAINTIES
CHAPTER 1 THE CLASH BETWEEN ACADEMIC TRADITIONS, MARKETS AND GATS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
CHAPTER 2 DEMOGRAPHY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. RISKS AND PROSPECTIVE APPROACHES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
PART II THE NEW WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION
CHAPTER 3 UNIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT: A VICIOUS OR A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
CHAPTER 4 ACADEMIC TRANSFORMATION: CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 204
Illustrations
- Tables: 15
Keywords: Europe; Higher Education

eBook

Published: April 10, 2010
ISBN: 9789633864678