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Based on empirical analysis using configuration theory and multi-dimensional scaling, this book provides insight into types of relationships that can be found between groups of countries with certain institutional context features, and into the quality and equity of their education system. In this volume, the authors take up the challenge of considering what a European ˜settlement' might look like. In doing so, they take into account worldwide trends and the increasing evidence of convergence across educational systems. The outcomes of comparative analyses seem to suggest that strong education systems in terms of finance, governance and choice could be preferable. To a greater or lesser extent, therefore, all the systems of education currently in use in Europe face some common challenges. The way in which these challenges are addressed will determine the future of these systems. Key elements in the current debate that are considered in greater detail in this volume include changing views on (a) centre-local relations with signs of an increasing commitment to decentralisation as a guiding principle for developing school governance; (b) school autonomy which is now increasingly regarded as the engine-room for school improvement, especially in relation to sustaining it; and (c) the celebration of community and school choice as a means of securing higher levels of parental involvement. This volume will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working in education, educational research and sociology of education. It will also be of relevance to those interested in the comparison of various education systems and in governance, funding of education and school choice.

School management --- Teaching --- onderwijs --- Europe --- Education --- Schools --- Education and state --- School management and organization --- Ecoles --- Administration scolaire --- Politique gouvernementale --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVEDUCA SPRINGER-B

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This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two editors have added a synopsis detailing the main trends, and sketching commonalities as well as contrasts in the developments across Europe. The book shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education all over Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area. Readers will obtain an up-to-date picture of the state of affairs of accreditation in the framework of evaluation activities in Europe. They will gain an understanding of why accreditation and evaluation systems have evolved the way they have, and subsequently, they will obtain more realistic views on potentialities for European comparability and cooperation in this area.

#SBIB:316.334.1O211 --- Onderwijsbeleid: internationaal --- Accreditation --- Agrément --- 378.1 --- 371.2 Schoolorganisatie --- 378.1 Interne organisatie. Universitaire autonomie --- Interne organisatie. Universitaire autonomie --- Agrément --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVEDUCA SPRINGER-B --- Education. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Assessment. --- Higher education. --- Higher Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. --- 371.2 --- Schoolorganisatie --- School management --- Higher education --- Europe --- Universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Evaluation. --- Universités --- Enseignement supérieur --- Evaluation --- Education, Higher. --- Educational tests and measuremen. --- International education . --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- College students --- Postsecondary education --- History --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools

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The European University is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that radical reforms are needed. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform plans comprise the purposes of universities, i.e. definitions of what the University is, can be and should be, criteria for quality and success, the kinds of research, education., services and innovation to be produced, and for whom. Reform plans also include the universities’ organization and financial basis, their governance structures, who should influence the future dynamics of universities, and according to what principles. In contrast, it can be argued that the currently dominant reform rhetoric is only one among several competing visions and understandings of the University and its dynamics. What is at stake is "what kind of University for what kind of society" and which, and whose values, interests and beliefs should be given priority in University governance and reforms? This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration processes ("Bologna" and "Lisbon") affecting University dynamics. Above all, the book presents a framework for analyzing ongoing "modernization" reforms and reform debates that take place at various governance levels, not least the European level, and a long-term research agenda.

Higher education and state --- Education --- Enseignement supérieur --- Political aspects --- Politique gouvernementale --- Aspect politique --- Education. --- Higher education and state. --- Education, Special Topics --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Social Sciences --- #SBIB:316.334.1O211 --- Onderwijsbeleid: internationaal --- Enseignement supérieur --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVEDUCA SPRINGER-B --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Political science. --- Educational policy. --- ducation and state. --- Higher education. --- Higher Education. --- Political Science. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Education and state. --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Government policy --- Education, Higher.

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This books deals with computer-mediated cooperation and communication scenarios in teaching and learning situations, leisure activities (e.g. laypersons looking for expert information on the internet), and net-based communication at work. Such scenarios will become increasingly important. But the successful use of such computer-mediated settings is not trivial. Cooperative learning and work itself requires special skills and strategies. And the technical settings with sometimes restricted, sometimes new possibilities for communication add problems on top of the cooperation itself. What are the barriers in computer-mediated communication for cooperative learning and work? Which are the most relevant biases in computer-mediated information processing? Based on empirical research the contributors from psychology, education and computer sciences offer different perspectives on the nature and causes of such barriers. The chapters also give an answer to the question how it might be possible to overcome these barriers and biases to fully gain advantage from the new technical opportunities. These results and answers are of interest for students as well as for researchers in all fields related to the use and evaluation of computer software in communication settings.

Computer-assisted instruction. --- Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems) --- Enseignement assisté par ordinateur --- Acquisition des connaissances (Systèmes experts) --- Computer-assisted instruction --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Enseignement assisté par ordinateur --- Acquisition des connaissances (Systèmes experts) --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVEDUCA SPRINGER-B --- Acquisition, Knowledge (Expert systems) --- Expertise acquisition (Expert systems) --- CAI (Computer-assisted instruction) --- Computer-aided instruction --- Computer-assisted learning --- Computer based instruction --- Computer-enhanced learning --- Electronic data processing in programmed instruction --- ILSs (Integrated learning systems) --- Integrated learning systems --- Microcomputer-aided instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted learning --- Microcomputer-based instruction --- Teaching --- Data processing --- Education. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Educational technology. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Educational Technology. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Education, general. --- Learning & Instruction. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Expert systems (Computer science) --- Educational technology --- Programmed instruction --- Telematics --- Computer science. --- Consciousness. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Informatics --- Science --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Training --- Learning. --- Instruction. --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Temperament --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Instructional technology --- Technology in education --- Technology --- Educational innovations --- Instructional systems --- Aids and devices

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What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the diversity evident in the following chapters reveals. Elite research universities often tend to join with others of their kind, so that a professor from an elite US institution may well undertake a Japanese sabbatical (if at all) at the University of Tokyo, a UK semester at Oxford or Cambridge, or an Australian semester at the University of Sydney, or perhaps Melbourne. At each, they can expect to have at their disposal well-stocked libraries, replete with requisite books, journals and databases, (many now available electronically), as well as highly regarded specialist peers in their research areas, with whom they can discuss their work in detail. How can this academic lifeworld be compared with that of a member of the South East Asian professoriate, for example, or many in Latin America and Africa, where inadequate wages often necessitate taking on a second job, often at a lower quality private institution (which, however, likely offers better remuneration), and/or perhaps conducting a small business on the side (Welch 2003, Tipton, Jarvis and Welch 2003), and where the lack of basic infrastructure, as well as research training, means that teaching, and perhaps some administration, is perhaps the limit of one’s activities? The story of differentiation, however, is not limited todifferences between elite institutions in OECD countries and more modest institutions elsewhere.

College teaching. --- College teachers. --- Enseignement universitaire --- Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) --- #SBIB:316.334.1O277 --- Onderwijs: rol van het personeel: hoogleraar --- College teaching --- College teachers --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVEDUCA SPRINGER-B --- Academicians --- Academics (Persons) --- College instructors --- College lecturers --- College professors --- College science teachers --- Lectors (Higher education) --- Lecturers, College --- Lecturers, University --- Professors --- Universities and colleges --- University academics --- University instructors --- University lecturers --- University professors --- University teachers --- University teaching --- Teachers --- Education. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Educational policy. --- ducation and state. --- Educational sociology. --- Higher education. --- Education and sociology. --- Sociology, Educational. --- Higher Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Sociology of Education. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Education and state. --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Aims and objectives --- Government policy --- History --- Faculty