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The de-Europeanization of the university under the Bologna Process
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In this paper, the authors discuss the changes promoted in European universities by the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) through an analysis of the main policy documents and mechanisms.Abstract:
This essay discusses the changes promoted in European universities by the ‘Bologna Process’ and the ‘European Higher Education Area’. Through an analysis of the main policy documents and mechanisms...read more
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The construction of higher education students within national policy: a cross-European comparison
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Curriculum Trends in European Higher Education: The Pursuit of the Humboldtian University Ideas
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How education standards gain hegemonic power and become international: The case of higher education and the Bologna Process:
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Understanding the transition of public universities to institutional autonomy in Kazakhstan
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Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries
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The Political Construction of Mass Schooling: European Origins and Worldwide Institutionalization
Francisco O. Ramirez,John Boli +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the origins of state educational systems in Europe in the nineteenth century and the institutionalization of mass education throughout the world in the twentieth century and offers a theoretical interpretation of mass state-sponsored schooling that emphasizes the role of education in the nation-building efforts of states competing with one another within the European interstate system.
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Social theory and globalization: The rise of a transnational state
TL;DR: The question of whether the nation-state is a historically specific form of world social organization now in the process of becoming transcended by capitalist globalization is addressed in this paper, where the authors argue that the historic limitations of social theory, insofar as it has been informed by the study of "national" societies and the nation state, are brought into focus by universalizing tendencies and transnational structural transformations bound up with globalization.
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Power, politics and transnational policy‐making in education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the main source of power lies not with the producers of the dominant educational discourse nor simply with the very discourse which is circulated and reproduced in national legislations, local policies and pedagogic practices, but with the increasingly global endorsement of a specific perception of what education should be about: to maintain or increase "economic competitiveness", "growth", "development", and "progress".
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The EU, Regulatory State Regionalism and New Modes of Higher Education Governance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that regulatory regionalism can be further nuanced if it takes into account "extra-regional" dynamics that have effects on region-building through the way they thicken and embed new structures, processes and social relations within and beyond the region.
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Confucianism, Modernities and Knowledge: China, South Korea and Japan
TL;DR: In this paper, a critique of the Confucian legacies in East Asian modernities, knowledge and pedagogies is presented, drawing from China, Korea and Japan for comparative analysis.