Otto Hüther, Georg Krücken

Higher Education in Germany-Recent Developments in an International Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Alger, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First academic monograph on recent developments of the German higher education system

Responds to a renewed international interest in the German higher education system

Offers up-to-date theoretical and empirical analyses to be used by both German and international scholars

Describes general theoretical concepts in higher education and social science research systematically and can serve as a useful blueprint for the analysis of other national systems

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Originaltitel: Hochschulen. Fragestellungen, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Hochschulforschung.
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319614793
• Artikelnr.: 52938976

Inhaltsangabe

The German higher education system - some key facts.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Recent reforms in the German higher education system.- 2.1 General societal developments as a fundamental trigger for reforms.- 2.2 Higher education reforms in Germany since the mid-1990s.- 3 Quantitative-structural configuration and developments.- 3.1 Quantitative developments.- 3.2 Trends in differentiation within the German higher education system.- 3.3 Trends in the funding of the German higher education system.- 4 Governance structures and their developments.- 4.1 Governance mechanisms and their properties.- 4.2 Typologies of governance regimes at higher education institutions.- 4.3 Current results of governance research.- 5 German higher education institutions as organizations.- 5.1 General organization theory.- 5.2 Specific organization theories relating to higher education institutions.- 6 Research on actors and groups of actors at higher education institutions.- 6.1 Students: From university entrance to graduation.- 6.2 Academics: From graduate to professor.- 6.3 Administrative staff.- Equality of opportunity in the German higher education system.- 7.1Gender.- 7.2 Social background.-8 Summarizing reflections-Stability and change in German higher education.

Rezensionen

"The book-based on the authors' 2016 book in German-is an appealing reading for an international audience interested in HE systems' developments and in further understanding the particularities of HE in Germany." (Andrea Detmer, Higher Education, Vol. 79, 2020)