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Higher Education in Societies

A Multi Scale Perspective

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Gaële Goastellec

    1. Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. France Picard

    1. Faculty of Education at Université Laval, Canada

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  • This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students’ access to universities.

Part of the book series: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century (CHER)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gaële Goastellec, France Picard
    Pages 1-8

  3. How do University, Higher Education and Research Contribute to Societal Well-Being?

    • Michèle Lamont
    Pages 9-16

  4. A Persian Grandee in Lausanne

    • Sheldon Rothblatt
    Pages 17-31

  5. A New Social Contract for Higher Education?

    • Peter Maassen
    Pages 33-50

  6. Higher Education and Public Good

    • Simon Marginson
    Pages 51-71

  7. Defending Knowledge as the Public Good of Higher Education

    • Joanna Williams
    Pages 73-86

  8. Partisan Politics in Higher Education Policy

    • Jens Jungblut
    Pages 87-111

  9. Access, Equity, and Regional Development

    • Rómulo Pinheiro
    Pages 113-125

  10. Shrinking Higher Education Systems

    • Madalena Fonseca, Sara Encarnação, Elsa Justino
    Pages 127-147

  11. Pathways to Higher Education in France and Switzerland

    • Jake Murdoch, Christine Guégnard, Maarten Koomen, Christian Imdorf, Sandra Hupka-Brunner
    Pages 149-169

  12. The Development of the Québec Higher Education System

    • France Picard, Pierre Canisius Kamanzi, Julie Labrosse
    Pages 171-182

  13. Engineering Access to Higher Education Through Higher Education Fairs

    • Agnès van Zanten, Amélia Legavre
    Pages 183-203

  14. Conclusion

    • France Picard, Gaële Goastellec
    Pages 205-210

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 211-214
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Universities are not only economic engines but societal ones. This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students’ access to universities. Structured around the central concept of the social contract, the growing recognition of the role of HE in its implementation, and regulations governing both individual and collective access, Higher Education in Societies: A Multiscale Perspective, explores the shifting mission of HE over the years from one thought to produce an elite to one of distributive justice by presenting research at the macro, meso and micro levels. In bringing together researchers from different countries, continents, and disciplines to study the same issue through a multiscale analysis, this book forms the starting line for further theoretical and methodological debate on the value of weaving together different approaches to the study of HE, including historical, comparative, sociological, organisational, institutional, quantitative, and qualitative.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gaële Goastellec

  • Faculty of Education at Université Laval, Canada

    France Picard

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