Universities and the Production of Elites : Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education /: Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roland Bloch, Alexander Mitterle, Catherine Paradeise, Tobias Peter.
• Editors: Bloch, Roland; Mitterle, Alexander; Paradeise, Catherine; Peter, Tobias
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Universities and the Production of Elites; Roland Bloch, Alexander Mitterle, Catherine Paradeise and Tobias Peter -- PART I. Setting up Narratives and Rationales -- Chapter 2. Excellence: On the Genealogical Reconstruction of a Rationality; Tobias Peter -- Chapter 3. Opening the Black Box of the Elitism Dispositif: Graduate Schools in Economics; Jens Maeße -- PART II. Disruptive Policies since the 1990s -- Chapter 4. Stratification through a Binary Degree Structure in Finnish Higher Education; Ulpukka Isopahkala‐Bouret -- Chapter 5. How Effective Have Reform Policies Been in Redesigning the French Higher Education and Research System?; Catherine Paradeise -- Chapter 6. The Global Ambitions of Irish Universities: Internationalizing Practices and Emerging Stratification in the Irish Higher Education Sector; Aline Courtois -- Chapter 7. The Transition from ‘Rank Equality’ to Vertical Differentiation in the German Higher Education Sector; Manfred Stock -- PART III. Organizing Competition through Incentives: New Policy Devices -- Chapter 8. The Production of Research Elites: Research Performance Assessment in the United Kingdom; Julian Hamann -- Chapter 9. Organizational Change in Response to the German Excellence Initiative: A Case Study of Humboldt University of Berlin; Rachelle Esterhaz -- PART IV. University Strategies for Redesigning Higher Education as Stratified Systems -- Chapter 10. Grasping the Global with One Foot in China: The Rise of Chinese Schools of Management; Tupac Soulas -- Chapter 11. Elite Business Schools and the Uses of Visibility; Jan Nespor -- Chapter 12. How to Make it in(to) Management: The Role of Business Education in Changing Career Pathways in Germany; Alexander Mitterle -- Chapter 13. Stratification without Producing Elites? The Emergence of a New Field of Doctoral Education in Germany; Roland Bloch -- PART V. Producing New Elites? -- Chapter 14. Producing a Global Elite? The Endurance of the National in Elite American and British Universities; Jonathan Z. Friedman -- Chapter 15. Academic Identity Constructions of the Écoles Normales Supérieures and the Challenges of Internationalization; Anne Schippling, Johannes Zimmermann and Maria Schmidt -- Chapter 16. Afterword: New Institutional, Inhabited Institutional, and a Cultural-Organizational Approach to Studying Elites and Higher Education; Amy J. Binder.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages), illustrations, tables
• Subjects: 378.73; Education; School management and organization; Education and state; ducation and state; Educational sociology; Education, Higher; EDUCATION / Higher; Education, Higher; Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education -- Administration -- General; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Education; Organization & management of education; Educational strategies & policy; Sociology; Education -- Higher; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319539701; 9783319539706
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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