Overview
- Is the first comprehensive book on the history of Finnish higher education
- Advances understanding of the Finnish ‘education miracle’
- Critically examines students, professors and universities as organisations
- Describes how Finnish universities have developed into multi-layered organisations
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 52)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- European universities in the Middle Ages
- Finnish students during the Middle Ages
- changes in schooling during the Swedish rule
- establishment of the Royal Academy in Abo
- the university of Turku at the end of the Swedish rule
- lutheranism
- expansion of higher education into practical fields
- higher education in the new Finnish republic
- development of Finnish higher education after WWII
- establishment of polytechnics
- Swedish kingdom
About this book
This book unravels the origins, continuities, and discontinuities of Finnish higher education as part of European higher education from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It describes the emergence of universities in the Middle Ages and the Finnish student, and moves on to the Reformation and the end of Swedish rule. It then discusses the founding of the Royal Academy of Turku, its professors and governing bodies, its role as a community, student numbers, the research and controversies. Travelling through the age of autonomy, the first decades of independence and the Second World War, the book examines the expansion of higher education, the development of the system, and the establishment of polytechnics. It concludes by analysing the multiple institutional and organisational layers of Finnish higher education. Altogether, the book offers an historical study that shows how and why education and higher education have been important in the process of making the Finnish nationand nation state.
Translator: Dr. Inga Arffman
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Finnish Higher Education from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century
Authors: Jussi Välimaa
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20808-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20807-3Published: 19 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20810-3Published: 19 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20808-0Published: 10 September 2019
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 325
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, History of Education, Sociology of Education, European History