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Lazar Vlasceanu - Universities and Reflexive Modernity - 9789639776494 - V9789639776494
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Universities and Reflexive Modernity

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Description for Universities and Reflexive Modernity Paperback. A chronicle of various changes in higher education in the world. It discusses the inherent contradiction between academia on the one hand, and expectations and regulations of the market on the other. It analyses demographic and other statistical characteristics of higher education. It examines the financial basis of universities. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 126 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.

A book about the challenges and uncertainties facing today's university, a chronicle of recent and current changes in higher education in the world. There are many questions today that are sufficiently open to doubt and profoundly related to new developments, to justify our starting new enquiries, here and now, by looking freshly and more closely at the actual configurations and at their historical grounds, for providing the new standard account of the university today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789639776494
SKU
V9789639776494
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99-1

About Lazar Vlasceanu
Lazar Vlasceanu is Head of the Sociology Department, Bucharest University. He is also vice-president of the Romanian Council on University Research and member of the Council of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. 

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