Reform and Change in Higher Education: Analysing Policy Implementation

ISBN-13: 9781402055362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 363 str.

CSE Gornitzka; Maurice Kogan; Alberto Amaral

Opis

This volume contains a comprehensive international discussion of the state of the art of implementation analysis in higher education and an extensive review of relevant recent literature. Starting from the now classical 1986 book of Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier (1986), "Great Expectations and Mixed Performance: the implementation of higher education reforms in Europe," Paul Sabatier, Ase Gornitzka with Svein Kyvik and Bjorn Stensaker, and Maurice Kogan present a critical appreciation of that initial work and a review and critical appraisal of current empirical policy research in higher education. In the second part, a set of chapters analyses the effective and specific complexities of the implementation of higher education policies in several countries, offering a wide variety of situations both in terms of duration of implementation, legal objectives, adequacy of causal theories underlying the reforms, adequacy of financial resources and degree of commitment of the main actors of the process. Some of these chapters use alternative theoretical frameworks developed since the 1986 Cerych and Sabatier theorization, to interpret the empirical results and some national cases do not fall into the scope of Cerych and Sabatier's analysis. The national case studies are the following: Australia (2), Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This variety of national cases, drawn from the world of higher education, represents an updated collection of empirical material analysed from the perspective of new theoretical approaches to policy implementation.

Spis treści

List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Overview. 1: From Policy Implementation to Policy Change: A Personal Odyssey, P. Sabatier. 2: Implementation Analysis in Higher Education, A. Gornitzka, S. Kyvik and B. Stensaker. 3: The Implementation Game, M. Kogan. National Case Studies. 4: The Implementation of the Norwegian College Reform, S. Kyvik. 5: The Legacy of 1981: An Assessment of the Long-term Implications of the Reductions in Funding Imposed in 1981 on Institutional Management in UK Higher Education, J. Taylor. 6: From Paper to Practice: Two Reforms and their Consequences in Dutch Higher Education, H.F. de Boer, J. Enders and D.F. Westerheijden. 7: Implementation of Higher Education Policies: A Portuguese Example, A. Amaral and A. Magalhaes. 8: Two Decades of Change in Spanish Universities: Learning the Hard Way, J-G. Mora and J. Vidal. 9: University Reform in Italy: Fears, Expectations and Contradictions, G. Luzzatto and R. Moscati. 10: Implementing Comprehensive National Higher Education Reforms: The Australian Reforms of Education Minister John Dawkins, 1987-90, G. Harman. 11: The Changing Role of the State in Mexican Higher Education: From the Crisis of Ineffectual Populism to New Forms of System Coordination, R. Kent. 12: Great Expectations, Mixed Governance Approaches and Unintended Outcomes: The Post-1994 Reform of South African Higher Education, N. Cloete, P. Maassen and J. Muller. 13: Equity Policy in Australian Higher Education: A Case of Policy Stasis, R. James and C. McInnis. 14: Social Dynamics of Higher Education Reforms: The Case of Finland, J. Välimaa. 15: Backlash or Modernisation? Two Reform Cycles in Austrian Higher Education, H. Pechar. 16: The Push for Accountability: Policy Influences and Actors in American Higher Education, E. El-Khawas. 17: From Low Income and Minority Access to Middle Income Affordability: A Case Study of the US Federal Role inProviding Access to Higher Education, R.C. Richardson Jr. and A.D. Hurley. 18: Implementing the Triple Helix: The Academic Response to Changing University-Industry-Government Relations in Sweden, S. Marton. 19: Profiling Comprehensiveness? Strategy Formulations and Effects of Strategic Programmes at Traditional Universities, I.M. Larsen and L. Langfeldt.