RE-BECOMING UNIVERSITIES? - Higher Education Institutions in Networked Knowledge Societies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book provides an overview of the major findings of the comparative research project, Changes in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Society (CINHEKS). The main aim of this international comparative research project is the analysis of how Higher education institutions are networked within distinct knowledge societies in two key regions of the world: Europe and the United States of America. This research project was carried out in four European countries (Finland, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom) and in two different states in the United States of America. In addition, during the course of the research, a team from the Russian Federation joined the CINHEKS study. The analysis is contextually grounded in a comparative policy analysis focused on the main developments and understandings of the ideas surrounding the term knowledge society, in all countries concerned. Empirical elaboration is established via a series of sequential studies, each building, incrementally, on the previous study. These studies include institutional profiles of higher education institutions, institutional case studies, and an international comparative survey that illuminates academics' social networks. The research findings broaden our understanding of the differences and similarities in how higher education institutions and individual academics are networked within and between societies that 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	The Changing Academy - The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, 15
Release date:	March 2016
Editors:	David M. Hoffman • Jussi Valimaa
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	490
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-9401773683
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	9401773688
Barcode:	9789401773683

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