Overview
- Written by a highly regarded international authorship
- Analyses international trends in higher education based on major social science theories and systematic empirical research
- Focuses on trends in both conceptions of knowledge and policy, organisation and management in higher education
- Focuses on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts
- Concentrates on continuity as well as change
- Festschrift for a renowned scholar whose influence extends well beyond higher education studies
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 9)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts. However, strong common themes bind these contributions together. They include not only the significance of massification, globalisation, neo-liberalism and managerialism for the governance of higher education, its knowledge and values, but also the complexities of change processes, the importance of context and history and the strength of the stabilities that remain.
The inspiration for this work comes from the career and personal influence of an individual scholar, Maurice Kogan. A central feature of his work has been empirically grounded analysis of interconnections between knowledge, values, authority and power and how these are reflected in institutional structures and individual practices. As a historian as well as a political scientist, he has always insisted on locating contemporary developments in a longer term perspective.
This volume is for researchers in higher education studies, students in postgraduate courses in higher education policy and management, higher education policy makers in national and international organisations, higher education institutional leaders, senior academics, managers and administrators.
Professor Teboho Moja, New York University, USA:
"It will be an invaluable resource inter alia for higher education students, scholars, and institutional leadership."
"The book could provide a major contribution to the field of higher education because of the different perspective different authors present and an array of issues as well as frameworks to discuss them."
"This book is bound for the desktops instead of the bookshelves of administrators, researchers, and graduate students. It is likely to be used time and again as readers explore new ways to transform education systems or institutions, meet their needs for program improvement, policy development, and general research. I expect that most readers will weave through the chapters (...) on an as-needed basis, until they have engaged all its excellent content."
Reviews
"…it will be an invaluable resource inter alia for higher education students, scholars, and institutional leadership. ... The book could provide a major contribution to the field of higher education because of the different perspective different authors present and an array of issues as well as frameworks to discuss them. ... This book is bound for the desktops instead of the bookshelves of administrators, researchers, and graduate students. It is likely to be used time and again as readers explore new ways to transform education systems or institutions, meet their needs for program improvement, policy development, and general research. I expect that most readers will weave through the chapters (…) on an as-needed basis, until they have engaged all its excellent content." (Professor Teboho Moja, New York University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governing Knowledge
Book Subtitle: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education - A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan
Editors: Ivar Bleiklie, Mary Henkel
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3504-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3489-3Published: 25 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6882-8Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3504-3Published: 18 July 2005
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 279
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general