Nugent The Transformation of the Student Career

University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93375-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education

This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries between the mid-1950s and the early 1990s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nugent, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. INTRODUCTION
The Transformation of the Student Career
Examining Change
2. CROSS NATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYIS
Comparative Method
Comparative Research: Method and Technique
Context of Analysis
Steps and Procedures in the Comparative Method
Setting up a Framework: Establishing the Components of the Student Career
3. THE IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF THE STUDENT CAREER: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PERSONAL IMPERATIVE
The Individual as Ideal
The Establishment of University Study
The Traditional Concept of University Study
4. SWEDEN
Academic Study: Traditional Structural Characteristics
New Purpose of University Study
The Problem of the "Free Faculties"
Centralizing Control and Segregating Purposes
U63: Challenge to Studiefrihet
Towards Comprehensiveness
Towards "Total Dimensioning:" The Philosophy of U68 and the 1977 Reforms
U68's Ideal and the 1977 Reforms in Retrospect
Reforming the Reforms
The Market Metaphor
Compartmentalization
5. THE NETHERLANDS
University Study
A Challenge to Studievrijheid
An Appeal to New Norms
Two Phases of Academic Education
Redefining Domains and Categories
'Equal but Different' Sectors of the Student Career
Compartmentalization of Academic Study
The Transformation of the Student Career: Compartmentalization, 'Quality' and 'Studiability'
6. GERMANY
Control of Education
Access to study
Academic Study: Structure, content and goals
Post War Reform Efforts
1960s: A Shift Towards Study Reform
Cooperative Federalism: Unified Standards
The Decade of Study Reform
Establishing a Praxis Orientation: Integration or Separation?
The Failed Prognosis
The Student Career: Towards the 21st Century
Studiability: New Efforts at Compartmentalization of the Student Career
Continuation of the Status Quo?
7. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE STUDENT CAREER
Compartmentalization of the Concept of Study
The Rise of Quality
The Balance of Responsibility
Towards a European Dimension of the Student Career
Quality: A Shift in Focus
Change and Reform in Retrospect