Transforming Universities - Softcover

Marianne Bauer, Susan Marton, Berit Askling And Ference Marton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853026751 ISBN 13: 9781853026751

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

The formation of higher education policy is a political process, and a change in government can have a substantial effect on higher education policy, resulting in dramatic system reform. Transforming Universities shows how such changes can affect institutional conditions and academic working and values, using the highly politicized Swedish system as a case study.

The book examines the implications of reforms for a higher education system on three levels - the state, the institution and the individual. The authors develop the links between policy formation at state level, type of institutional autonomy and conditions for learning at individual level, and argue that higher education policy makers need to focus on improving knowledge formation.

About this title

About the Authors

Berit Askling is Professor in the Department of Education and Educational Research at G"teborg University.

Susan Marton is a Assistant Researcher in the Department of Political Science, G"teborg University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853026751
• ISBN 13: 9781853026751
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320