Re-becoming Universities?

Synopsis

This book provides anoverview of the major findings of the comparative research project, Changes inNetworks, Higher Education and Knowledge Society (CINHEKS). The main aim ofthis international comparative research project is the analysis of how Higher educationinstitutions are networked within distinct knowledge societies in two keyregions of the world: Europe and the United States of America. This researchproject was carried out in four European countries (Finland, Germany, Portugaland the United Kingdom) and in two different states in the United States ofAmerica. In addition, during the course of the research, a team from theRussian Federation joined the CINHEKS study. The analysis is contextuallygrounded in a comparative policy analysis focused on the main developments andunderstandings of the ideas surrounding the term knowledge society, in allcountries concerned. Empirical elaboration is established via a series ofsequential studies, each building, incrementally, on the previous study. Thesestudies include institutional profiles of higher education institutions,institutional case studies, and an international comparative survey thatilluminates academics' social networks. The research findings broaden ourunderstanding of the differences and similarities in how higher educationinstitutions and individual academics are networked within and between societiesthat understand themselves as knowledge societies. The book introduces a novel analytical synthesis, which asserts contemporary societies have evolved into Networked Knowledge Societies. Methodologically, the book both challenges and raises the bar for previous approaches in comparative higher education, in terms of research design, execution and lays the groundwork for a new generation of international comparative higher education research. ​

Copyright:

2016

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789401773690

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

Date of Addition:

10/28/16

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education

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