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The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management
Known as either ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ ‘managerialism’, ‘new managerialism’ or ‘new public management’, this new narrative has, irrespective of moniker, permeated the institutions of higher education almost everywhere. Taking this as its context, this volume is founded on a comprehensive international comparative analysis of the evolving role of middle-level academic managers—deans, heads of department and their equivalents. The chapters address key questions that will determine the future of academe: have the imperatives of management theory caused a realignment of the values and expectations of middle-level academic managers? In what way do the new expectations placed on th...
Effects of Higher Education Reforms: Change Dynamics
Higher education is in transition. On the one hand, over the last decades it has become politically and economically more important and thus also an object of reforms. On the other hand, higher education has become less special and is no longer able to justify its unique governance arrangements. This volume presents a collection of contributions that go beyond reform agendas as such and focus on the effects of reforms at all relevant levels in higher education systems. It is organised in four themes – education, research, governance, and academic profession – with a variety of levels of analysis, theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and geographical foci. The topics in focus include the possible impact of latest national and European initiatives, changes in the primary processes (education and research) on the levels of institutions, professions and for individuals as well as higher education dynamics in contexts often overlooked in the literature (e.g. Africa). The aim is to ‘take stock’ of the growing knowledge basis with respect to higher education with a special focus on the influence of reforms on the key aspects of higher education.
Uniwersytet w dobie przemian
Książka jest wynikiem wieloletnich, międzynarodowych badań porównawczych instytucji uniwersyteckich w Europie. Uniwersytety są poddawane potężnym presjom zmian, które z jednej strony są związane z wyzwaniami globalizacji, europeizacji i umasowienia całego szkolnictwa wyższego, a z drugiej ze zmianą roli europejskiego państwa dobrobytu. W centrum tych zmian stoi kadra akademicka, która od co najmniej dwudziestu lat poddawana jest presjom kolejnych etapów reform finansowania i zarządzania systemami szkolnictwa wyższego w Europie. Uniwersytet w dobie przemian analizuje zachodzące w Europie i w Polsce zmiany z perspektywy porównawczej w oparciu o niezwykle obszerny materiał...
The Changing Academic Profession
This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information on their working situation, their views and activities. The study “The Changing Academic Profession” is the second major study of its kind, and changes of views and activities are presented through a comparison of the findings with those of the earlier study undertaken in the early 1990s. Major themes are the academics’ perception of their societal and institutional environments, the view...
Visões da Luz
Esta obra junta várias contribuições de especialistas em áreas muito diversas do saber, para discutir o tema ‘Luz’ de vários pontos de vista. Os temas reunidos nesta obra provêm das áreas de Física, Filosofia, Transcendência, Química, Ótica, Geologia, Literatura, História das Ciências, História, Geografia, Relações Internacionais, Biologia, Psicologia, Arte, Cinema e Fotografia, Medicina e Museologia. Os textos reflectem parcialmente os conteúdos apresentados no colóquio interdisciplinar ‘Visões da Luz’ realizado em Outubro de 2015, por ocasião do Ano Internacional da Luz de 2015, sob a égide do III-UC e aberto ao meio académico e à sociedade, em particular, a professores dos Ensinos Básico e Secundário.
Ciencia y desarrollo
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Agroecology
Introduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?
Godel
Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us a complete understanding of the universe, Gödel's theorem also raised many provocative questions: What are the limits of rational thought? Can we ever fully understand the machines we build? Or the inner workings of our own minds? How should mathematicians proceed in the absence of complete certainty about their results? Equally legendary were Gödel's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first book for a general audience on this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life.
