The Open World and Closed Societies
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The Open World and Closed Societies

Essays on Higher Education Policies "in Transition"

  1. 251 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Open World and Closed Societies

Essays on Higher Education Policies "in Transition"

About this book

This book is about higher education reforms in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, seen through the eyes of somebody who has spent the last decade analyzing these reforms as well as negotiating and supervising reform projects in countries from Serbia and Montenegro to Mongolia. Analyzing the reforms in a broader political, economic and social context and relating these to global higher education developments, the book addresses the complexity of the processes and contradictions among the demands on higher education systems, which in many instances impede positive changes.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9781403965073
eBook ISBN
9781403979476
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Administration

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1 From Lenin to Digital Rapture: The Everlasting Transition in East European Higher Education and Beyond
  6. Chapter 2 Higher Education Reform in Romania: Knocking on Heaven's Door
  7. Chapter 3 Thirteen Years of Higher Education Reforms in Estonia: Perfect Chaos
  8. Chapter 4 Russian Higher Education After Communism: The Candy Man's Gone
  9. Chapter 5 Market as Metaphor in East European Higher Education
  10. Chapter 6 Reaching Beyond Geometry—The Privateness of Private Universities
  11. Chapter 7 Exploring the Limits of Entrepreneurial Response
  12. Chapter 8 When East Meets West: Decontextualizing the Quality of East European Higher Education
  13. Chapter 9 Reproduction of the "State Nobility" in Eastern Europe: Past Patterns and New Practices
  14. Chapter 10 The Communication Community and the Scam of the Knowledge Society
  15. Chapter 11 Transnational Capitalist Class and World Bank "Aid" for Higher Education
  16. Chapter 12 Toward a Model of Higher Education Reform in Central and East Europe
  17. Epilogue: The Unholy Trinity of Prince, Prophet, and Philosopher
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index

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