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This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specificall...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Geschwind, Lars (Editor), Broström, Anders (Editor), Larsen, Katarina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Higher Education Dynamics, 56
Subjects:
Education, Higher.
Education > History.
International education .
Comparative education.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Higher Education.
History of Education.
International and Comparative Education.
Organization and Leadership.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Organisational identities, boundaries, and change processes of technical universities; Katarina Larsen, Lars Geschwind & Anders Broström
  • 2. Technical Universities: A Historical Perspective; Lars Geschwind & Anders Broström
  • 3. Are some technical universities better than others?; Mats Benner
  • 4. The position of technical universities within changing frameworks of institutional organisation and steering: the case of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Agnete Vabø & Liv Langfeldt
  • 5. Understanding the development of technical universities in Poland; Dominik Antonowicz
  • 6. Formalised boundaries between polytechnics and technical universities: experiences from Portugal and Finland; Teresa Carvalho and Sara Diogo
  • 7. Technical Universities in Germany: On Justification of the Higher Education and Research Markets; Christian Schneijderberg
  • 8. Integrating the academic and professional values in engineering education - ideals and tensions; Kristina Edström
  • 9. Technical identity in a merger process - between a rock and a hard place; Tea Vellamo, Elias Pekkola, Taru Siekkinen & Yuzhuo Cai
  • 10. Engineering academisation: the transition of lower level engineering education from upper secondary school level to higher education; Per Fagrell and Lars Geschwind
  • 11. Double degree programmes in engineering and education-two cases from Swedish technical universities; Mikael Cronhjort & Lars Geschwind
  • 12. Concluding discussion: The past, present, and future of technical universities; Anders Broström, Lars Geschwind, Katarina Larsen. .

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