From Governance to Identity: A Festschrift for Mary Henkel

166 Pages·2009·2.75 MB·English

by  Ivar Bleiklie

Alberto Amaral
Ivar Bleiklie
Christine Musselin
Editors
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From Governance to Identity
HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS
VOLUME 24
Series Editor
Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede,
The Netherlands
Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch, South Africa
Editorial Board
Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa
David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA
Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OFTHE SERIES
Higher Education Dynamicsis a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes
and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to
examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It
aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing
theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that
is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as
ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher
education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or
students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education,
covering public as well as private institutions.
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Alberto Amaral • Ivar Bleiklie • Christine Musselin
Editors
From Governance to Identity
A Festschrift for Mary Henkel
Editors
Alberto Amaral Ivar Bleiklie
Universidade do Porto Department of Administration and
CIPES Organization Theory
Rua 1 de Dezembro 399 University of Bergen
4450 Matosinhos Christiesgate
Portugal 5007 Bergen
[email protected] Norway
[email protected]
Christine Musselin
Centre de Sociologie des Organisations
Sciences Po et CNRS
19 rue Amélie
75007 Paris
France
[email protected]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors vii

Books by Mary Henkel xi

Foreword xiii
IVAR BLEIKLIE

Introduction 1
IVAR BLEIKLIE, CHRISTINE MUSSELIN AND ALBERTO AMARAL

PART I – IDENTITIES

Being an Academic in a Time-Impoverished Age 7
RONALD BARNETT

Student Identities in Mass Higher Education 19
JOHN BRENNAN AND KAVITA PATEL

Emerging Academic Identities: A New Research and Policy Agenda 31
ELAINE EL-KHAWAS

PART II – ACADEMIC WORK

Towards a Sociology of Academic Work 47
CHRISTINE MUSSELIN

The University as Enterprise and Academic Co-determination 57
IVAR BLEIKLIE AND SVEIN MICHELSEN

PART III – POLICY AND GOVERNANCE

Transforming Higher Education 81
ALBERTO AMARAL

The Modernisation of European Higher Education: National
Policy Dynamics 95
PETER MAASSEN

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On Striking the Right Notes: Shifts in Governance and the Organisational
Transformation of Universities 113
JÜRGEN ENDERS, HARRY DE BOER AND LIUDVIKA LEISYTE

Transforming a Centralised System of Higher Education: Reform
and Academic Resistance in Italy 131
ROBERTO MOSCATI

PART IV – METHODS

On Comparative Research in Higher Education 141
JUSSI VÄLIMAA

Index 157
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ALBERTO AMARAL is Professor at the University of Porto and director of CIPES.
He has been chair of the Board of CHER, is life member of IAUP, and a member of
EAIR, SHRE, SCUP and IMHE. He is editor and co-editor of several books,
including Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional
Governance, The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?, Markets in Higher
Education: Rhetoric or Reality? and Reform and Change in Higher Education.

RONALD BARNETT is Pro-Director for Longer Term Strategy and Professor of
Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. His books
include The Idea of Higher Education, Realising the University in an age of
supercomplexity and Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University. He
is also the immediate past-Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education.

IVAR BLEIKLIE is Professor and Head of the Department of Administration and
Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, Norway and Adjunct Researcher
at the Rokkan Centre for Social Studies. Among his publications are: Transforming
Higher Education. A Comparative Study (ed. with M. Kogan, M. Bauer and
M. Henkel), Governing Knowledge: a study of continuity and change in higher
education (ed. with M. Henkel) and Policy and Practice in Higher Education:
Reforming Norwegian Universities (with R. Høstaker and A. Vabø).

JOHN BRENNAN is Professor of Higher Education Research at the UK Open
University where he is also Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research
and Information. His research interests are in the relationship between higher
education and social change and he has led many national and international projects
within this theme. He has written many articles and several books on topics such as
graduate employment and higher education quality assurance systems.

HARRY F. DE BOER is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Higher Education
Policy Studies at the University of Twente. His research interests in the field of
higher education studies concern governance and steering models, institutional
governance and management, and strategic planning and decision making. He
frequently publishes in these areas including his articles in the journals European
Journal of Education, Higher Education Research & Development, Public
Administration, Tertiary Education and Management.

ELAINE EL-KHAWAS is Professor of Education Policy at George Washington
University. She has published widely on policies affecting higher education,
including issues in quality assurance, organizational change, faculty and governance.
She is a past-President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, a
winner of the 2006 ASHE Award for Leadership, and serves on editorial boards of
several international journals in higher education. She has been Professor of Higher
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Education at UCLA, vice president for policy analysis and research at the American
Council on Education, and Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher
Education, and has held consultancies for the World Bank, UNESCO, OECD, and
the Association of African Universities. Her master’s and doctoral degrees in
sociology are from the University of Chicago.

JÜRGEN ENDERS is Professor and Director of the Center for Higher Education
Policy Studies at the University of Twente. He is member of the editorial board of the
book series ‘Higher Education Dynamics’ and the journal Higher Education. His
research interests are in the areas of the Political Sociology of Higher Education,
Governance and Management of Higher Education and Research, Higher Education
and the World of Work, and the Academic Profession. He has written and (co-) edited
numerous books and published in journals such as Higher Education, Higher
Education Policy, Leviathan, Public Administration, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia,
Scientometrics.

LIUDVIKA LEISYTE holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Twente, a MPhil
degree in International and Comparative Education from the University of Oslo in
2002 and holds a post-graduate Diploma in International Business and a BA degree
in Linguistics from Vilnius University. She is an educational advisor for Soros
Foundation, and works as a protocol specialist at the Ministry of Economy in
Lithuania.

PETER MAASSEN is Professor of Higher Education at the Faculty of Education,
University of Oslo, where he is also the director of Hedda, a consortium of
European centres and institutes in the area of higher education studies. His academic
areas of specialization are ‘the public governance of higher education’, and ‘higher
education and development’. He is the editor of the series Higher Education
Dynamics (Springer Publishers), and has written and (co-)edited numerous books,
book chapters and articles (in 7 languages) in journals of higher education, political
science, management studies, and policy analysis.

SVEIN MICHELSON is an Associate Professor at the Department of Administration
and Organization Theory. Among his research interests are vocational education and
higher education professions, organisation and policy. His publications include “The
New Careworker – Expanding the Apprentice System into new Fields of Work”, in:
Gender Perspectives on Vocational Education, “Building the new Governance in
Norwegian apprentice organization” in: Governance and Marketisation in Vocational
and Continuing Education, and “Some remarks on Norwegian Vocational Education
and training policies and lifelong learning” in: Lifelong Learning: One Focus,
Different Systems.

ROBERTO MOSCATI is Professor of Sociology of Education at the Università di
Milano-Bicocca. His main scientific interests are on comparative higher education,
university governance and the academic profession. He is member of the editorial
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board of the international journal Tertiary Education and Management. His last
book – written with Stefano Boffo and Pierre Dubois – (“Il governo dell’Università”)
is a comparative analysis of Italian rectors and French university presidents.

CHRISTINE MUSSELIN is the director of the Centre de Sociologie des
Organisations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS. She leads comparative
studies on university governance, public policies in higher education and research,
state-universities relationships and academic labour markets. One of her books, La
longue marche des universités françaises published by the P.U.F in 2001 has
recently been edited in English (The Long March of French Universities) by
Routledge (2004). A new book, Le marché des universitaires was published in
November 2005 by the Presses de Sciences Po. She has been a DAAD fellow in
1984–1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998–1999.

KAVITA PATEL is Research Assistant in the Centre for Higher Education
Research and Information at the UK Open University. A social science graduate
from Brunel University, her research interests lie in issues concerned with student
identities, social equity and the relationship of higher education to wider processes
of social change.

JUSSI VÄLIMAA is Professor in Higher Education Studies at the University of
Jyväskylä, Finland and the Head of the Higher Education Research Team in the
Institute for Social Research. His research interests are in social studies in higher
education.