European and Latin American Higher Education Between Mirrors : Conceptual Frameworks and Policies of Equity and Social Cohesion

ISBN-13: 9789462095434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 228 str.

Antonio Teodoro; Manuela Guilherme

Opis

This book aims to deepen the discussion about the goals envisioned, the roles undertakenand constraints found in higher education institutions both in Europe and Latin America incurrent times. This book addresses the controversies and challenges regarding globalisingideologies, policies, and practices at place. It questions leading concepts, epistemologicalaxioms and sweeping transnational policies which are shaking core principles, traditionalroutines and local commitments of European and Latin American higher educationinstitutions. It focuses on the motivations and consequences of transnational networking inacademic life, on the impacts of the Bologna process, both its vision and implementationin higher education in Europe and its exportation to Latin America. This book also examinesthe defi nitions, translations and implications of concepts such as equality and difference,equity and solidarity, governance and citizenship and their signifi cance in organizational,geographical and global contexts of contemporary higher education both in Europe andLatin America.