Higher Education Across the Circumpolar North

A Circle of Learning
2002. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-333-91783-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

This is the first book to analyze the role of the new circumpolar universities in northern development. Since 1960, over twenty new universities have been built in the northern regions of Canada, Russia, the United States, the Nordic countries and Japan. This book analyzes and compares the reasons for their establishment, the impact they have had in providing greater access to advanced education, and the effect they have had on economic, social, cultural and political development of these various northern regions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nord, D.

Weller, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; G.R.Weller Universities in Northern Finland; E.Riepula Universities in Northern Sweden; K.Lundmark The University of Tromsø, Norway; P.Arbo & N.Fulsås The Role of the University of Akureyri, Iceland, in Northern Development; I.R.Edvardsson & T.Gunnarsson Greenland and the University; P.Langgård Universities in Northern Canada; G.R.Weller The Role of the University of Alaska in Northern Development; D.M.Hitchins Universities in the European North of Russia; V.Vasiliev & N.Toivonen Universities in Northern Japan; S.Aramata Conclusions: The Role of Universities in Northern Development: A Comparative Perspective; D.C.Nord Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

SHIGEO ARAMATA President of Kushiro Public University of Economics, Japan
PETER ARBO Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Community Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway
INGO RUNAR EDVARDSSON Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, University of Akureyri, Iceland
NARVE FULSÅS Professor of History, University of Tromsø
THORSTEINN GUNNARSSON Rector, University of Akureyri, Iceland
DIDDY M. HITCHINS Professor of Political Science and Director of Canadian Studis Program, University of Alaska
PER LANGGÅRD Prorector, University of Greenland
KJELL LUNDMARK Professor of Political Science, University of Umeå, Sweden
ESKO RIEPULA Rector, University of Lapland, Finland
NICOLAI TOIVONEN Vice-Rector, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia
VICTOR VASILIEV Rector, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia