Technical Universities : : Past, present and future / / edited by Lars Geschwind, Anders Broström, Katarina Larsen.
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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| Superior document: | Higher Education Dynamics, 56 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Higher Education Dynamics,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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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. .