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Globalizing Higher Education and Strengthening the European Spirit How the Bologna Reform Has Changed Our World
The so-called Bologna process is one of the most disputed and influential long-term policy changes the European Union has ever succeeded to start. It has harmonized European higher education systems and, at the same time, deeply changed concepts about what the core of Europeanness is. This book discusses various aspects of this transformative and influential “soft policy” process.
The Bologna process, initiated over 20 years ago, confronts us with fundamental questions about the European integration process that is facing the greatest challenge in its history to date. The goal was to increase the comparability and competitiveness of European higher education structures, their quality and outcomes. But how successful was this endeavour? This book discusses different aspects of this reform, national interests, globalization trends, competition and cooperation within higher education and the influences of harmonization on the Europeanness of the young generation.
Globalizing Higher Education and Strengthening the European Spirit will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Education, Education Policy, Social Sciences, and European Studies. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.
1. Soft policies for Europeanization in a rougher World
Christiane Dienel
2. 20 years of Bologna: a story of success, a story of failure. Policy convergence and (non-) implementation in the realm of the Bologna Process
Eva Maria Vögtle
3. Bologna and student mobility: a fuzzy relationship
Ulrich Teichler
4. The Bologna Process in a global setting: twenty years later
Pavel Zgaga
5. The Bologna process in European and post-Soviet higher education: institutional legacies and policy adoption
Jeroen Huisman
6. The Bologna Process and the harmonization of higher education systems in other world regions: a case from Southeast Asia
Philipp Pohlenz and Frank Niedermeier
7. Unthinking the European Higher Education Area: differentiated integration and Bologna's different configurations
Amélia Veiga
8. How the Bologna process has affected the German university system
George Turner
9. Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany: the winners of "Bologna"?
Micha Teuscher
10. Organizational changes towards a European academic field. A case study of frictions in the narratives of Europeanization at a German university from an institutional perspective
Klarissa Lueg
11. Returns to bachelor’s and master’s degree in tertiary education: the case of the Czech Republic after the Bologna Process
Petra Raudenská and Martina Mysíková
12. A remodelling of university roles? Some tendencies in Sweden
Martin Peterson
Biography
Christiane Dienel is a social scientist and director of Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management. After a PhD about French-German Relations, she held a chair for European Policy and Society and subsequently became deputy Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. From 2011-2016, she was president of Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences.
