Overview
- Explores the processes that produce elite universities and academic elites
- Examines critically a range of discourses, strategies and policies employed by institutions to foster elitism
- Draws on a range of international case studies from across North America, Europe, and Asia
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education (PSGHE)
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This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness towards stakeholders such as governments, prospective employers, academics, and students. Based on American, European, and Asian case studies of HE systems and institutions considered at various scales, the volume analyzes the consequences of increasing competition between HE institutions which are facing challenges such as the internationalization of higher education supply, the shortage of public resources and the structural changes of labor market demands. It argues that policy discourses and tools, as well as assessment devices such as rankings and accreditation, incentivize HE institutions to develop positioning strategies that contribute to stratification and the production ofelites. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of higher education, sociology, and education policy.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Setting Up Narratives and Rationales
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Disruptive Policies since the 1990s
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Organizing Competition through Incentives: New Policy Devices
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University Strategies for Redesigning Higher Education as Stratified Systems
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The Production of New Elites?
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Reviews
“All agree that the global expansion of the university is revolutionizing contemporary society, but to what end? Assembling leading intellectuals, Bloch, Mitterle, Paradeise, and Peter offer an unique and groundbreaking analysis of this transforming phenomenon coming to challenging new theoretical and empirical conclusions. Universities and the Production of Elites is one of the richest collections of essays on the future impact of the university to appear in some time.” (David P. Baker, Professor of Sociology, Education and Demography, Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Roland Bloch is a research associate at the Institute of Sociology and the Center for School and Educational Research at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Alexander Mitterle is a research associate at the Institute of Sociology and the Center for School and Educational Research at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Catherine Paradeise is a sociologist and Professor Emeritus at University Paris Est-LISIS, France.
Tobias Peter is a research associate at the Institute of Sociology at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Universities and the Production of Elites
Book Subtitle: Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education
Editors: Roland Bloch, Alexander Mitterle, Catherine Paradeise, Tobias Peter
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53970-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53969-0Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85288-1Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53970-6Published: 14 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-4214
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 392
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education