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The Dynamics of Change in Higher Education

Expansion and Contraction in an Organisational Field

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Authors:
  1. Svein Kyvik

    1. Research and Education, NIFU STEP Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Norway

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  • Explores the transformation of a national system over many decades
  • Higher education outside universities has been an understudied field

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 27)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-X
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  3. Fragmented Expansion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 42-42
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    2. Differentiation and Diversification

      Pages 43-60

    3. Geographical and Institutional Decentralisation

      Pages 61-80

  4. Horizontal Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 82-82
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    2. Field Contraction

      Pages 83-108

    3. Regionalisation

      Pages 109-131

  5. Vertical Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 134-134
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    2. Academisation

      Pages 135-165

    3. Field Coupling

      Pages 167-185

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 188-188
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    2. The Dynamics of Change

      Pages 189-205

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 207-225
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About this book

In most Western European countries, higher education has to an increasing extent been developing outside universities, partly through the establishment of new ins- tutions, and partly through the upgrading of professional and vocational schools into higher education colleges. The main trend in countries with a binary system has been that student numbers have increased more in the college sector than in the university sector. Yet, there is a shortage of in-depth studies on the changes that have taken place in this part of the educational system, and on the processes that have driven this development. The aim of this book is to improve our understanding of these processes, through developing concepts and theoretical perspectives which might offer new insights of complex phenomena. This book is based upon a large number of studies on college education in Norway and in other Western European countries. I have studied change processes in this field over a period stretching back to the late 1970s (Kyvik 1981), and this book synthesises my former publications, as well as updates the development until August 2008, and presents new analyses based on my gradual attainment of deeper insight into the processes that have taken place.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Research and Education, NIFU STEP Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Norway

    Svein Kyvik

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Dynamics of Change in Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Expansion and Contraction in an Organisational Field

  • Authors: Svein Kyvik

  • Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9248-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9245-9Published: 04 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8097-4Published: 11 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9248-0Published: 25 December 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1571-0378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 226

  • Topics: Higher Education

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