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The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education

By Ted Tapper , David Palfreyman (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2010
ISBN
904819153X, 9789048191536
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-9154-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2606063 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
187\192
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Educational Policy and Politics; Higher Education;

Description

This book will examine the relationship between collegiality and the collegial tradition in the context of the development of mass higher education. The collegial tradition in higher education has been shaped above all by the collegiate universities. In all its various forms (as commensality, as a mode of governance, and as a critical force in shaping the process of teaching, learning and research) the collegial tradition has found sustenance in many sectors of higher education. It may well be that the tradition as expressed in these forms now has more strength and depth in the non-collegiate than in the collegiate universities. This work will give a fuller picture of the present-day character of British (especially English) higher education. Although this is a book that will rely particularly upon the Oxford experience of collegiality, there will be extensive comparative and international reference to the idea of collegiality, the various challenges to it that have emerged within different national systems, and the contrasting patterns of adjustment to those challenges.

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