Ian Austin, Glen A Jones

Governance of Higher Education

Global Perspectives, Theories, and Practices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the work of traditional and contemporary higher education governance scholars worldwide, provides critical analysis of their work, and explores underlying assumptions, historical traditions, and paradigms that have shaped the scholarship on governance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415739740
• ISBN-10: 0415739748
• Artikelnr.: 42699304

Autorenporträt

Ian Austin is the Deputy Director for Continuing and Professional Education at the University of the West Indies, Open Campus, Barbados. Glen A. Jones is Ontario Research Chair in Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement, and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Conceptualizing Governance in Higher Education
2. Theories of Governance: Institutions, Agency and External Influences
3. Theories of Governance: Structure, Culture and Internal Dynamics
4. State-University Governance: Concepts, Perspectives and Shifting
Tides
5. State-University Governance in Selected Countries
6. Academic Self-governance: Concepts, theories and practices
7. Governance as Politics and Processes
8. Governing the Managed Enterprise
9. New Issues and Challenges in Governance
10. Concluding Observations and Reflections