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Collaboration, Communities and Competition

International Perspectives from the Academy

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Editors:
  1. Samuel Dent

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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  2. Laura Lane

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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  3. Tony Strike

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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  • European academics who research higher education met in 2016 in Birmingham, UK, and together they considered the theme of collaboration and competition and their findings are presented in this book.
  • This book asks whether academic collaboration and partnership can act as an antidote to the consumerist and competitive approaches taken by governments toward regulating their higher education systems.
  • This book critically observes academic competition and collaboration between and across countries, institutions, disciplines, academics and students. It explores competition and collaboration within disciplines across organisational boundaries and at the interface between individual academics, and between academics and students as learners.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Macro (System-Level Collaboration)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Tony Strike
      Pages 3-13

    3. Internationalisation of Higher Education: On Whose Terms?

      • Ellen Carm, Tone Horntvedt
      Pages 15-29

    4. University-Business Quality Partnerships

      • Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
      Pages 31-49

    5. New Strategies of European Technical Universities in the Emerging Competitive Environment of Global Rankings

      • Eva M. de La Torre, Carmen Perez-Esparrells
      Pages 51-71

    6. Governing Education, Educating the Governors

      • Andrew Moulton, Yolande Mcnicoll, Anthony Luff
      Pages 73-89

  3. Meso (Community and Pedagogical Collaboration)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Introduction

      • Samuel Dent
      Pages 93-106

    3. Groups and Boundaries in Higher Education

      • Eilef J. Gard, Carl Cato Wadel
      Pages 107-123

    4. Student Participation in Quality Assurance: A Partnership?

      • Sónia Cardoso, Maria João Rosa, Pedro Videira
      Pages 125-142

    5. The Role of Academic and Non-Academic Factors on the Development of a Sense of Belonging Among First-Year Students

      • Cornelius M. Fourie
      Pages 143-167

  4. Micro (The Place of the Learner)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Introduction

      • Laura Lane
      Pages 171-178

    3. Insights into Phd Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Partnership and Competition in Computer Science

      • Maria Del Carmen Calatrava Moreno, Mary Ann Danowitz
      Pages 179-193

    4. “Because She Loves what She is Doing”

      • Oliver Vettori, Johanna Warm
      Pages 195-203

    5. External Quality Assurance as a Watchdog for Student Influence

      • Anette Gröjer, Inger Wikström Öbrand
      Pages 205-218

    6. Developing Academic Leadership

      • Anthony Luff, Belinda Kennedy, Julianne Reid
      Pages 219-234

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 215-215
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About this book

Higher Education providers face enormous challenges in an increasingly competitive and globalised environment. It is perhaps obvious to those engaged in teaching and research that academia is both a competitive and a collaborative endeavour. Many national systems now assume in their legal or governance frameworks competitive rather than co-operative behaviour and increasingly regulate based on that assumption. Institutional leaders and educators wrestle with the issues around the commoditisation of learning and the pressure to treat students as customers. In tandem, students themselves are experiencing cuts in public financing and a transfer of the cost burden to them as the perceived private beneficiaries of a product. This book asks whether there is an alternative approach to this now transnational competitive logic. Can collaboration and partnership (re-)emerge as an antidote to the consumerist and competitive approaches taken by governments toward regulating their higher education systems? The question of competition, collaboration and community is addressed here at three levels of analysis. The macro-level or the international system level, observes competition and collaboration between countries and between institutions. The meso-level, includes competition and collaboration between academics and students, and at inter- and intra-disciplinary levels across organisational boundaries. Finally, competition and collaboration at the micro-level considers the interface between individual academics, and between academics and students as learners.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Samuel Dent, Laura Lane, Tony Strike

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Collaboration, Communities and Competition

  • Book Subtitle: International Perspectives from the Academy

  • Editors: Samuel Dent, Laura Lane, Tony Strike

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6351-122-3Published: 25 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CCXXXVI, 10

  • Topics: Education, general

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