Higher education and the state: changing relationships in Europe and East Asia
Higher education and the state: changing relationships in Europe and East Asia
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高等教育与国家:欧洲和东亚关系的变化
DOI:
10.1080/14748460.2013.802892
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
P. Temple
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作者:
P. Temple
This book discusses the relationship between higher education and the state in several European and East Asian countries. This relationship is complicated and has undergone many changes. Hence, while it has been a traditional area of investigation among higher education researchers, it remains imperfectly understood. One of the most famous academic explanations of the relationship is Burton Clark’s triangle of coordination (1983, p. 143), where the state authority, the academic oligarchy and the market interact. However, Clark’s model is no longer very useful to depict how the relationship is changing, since the interactions and indeed the identities of its drivers have become more diverse. As John Taylor (2013, p. 33) argues in the first chapter of the book, “[T]raditional attempts to understand the relationship based upon ‘control’ or ‘steering’ continue to have some validity, but they are too simple to explain such obvious complexity. Similarly, reference to ‘the market’ is also an over-simplification”. For this reason, the book aims to find a new way to understand the relationship. The book is comprised of four sections: Introductory Section, United Kingdom, Continental Western Europe, and Japan and Korea. The first section has three chapters. The first chapter is a general discussion and summary of the book by John Taylor. The second chapter, written by Roger Goodman, provides a broader historical perspective on the relationship between higher education and the state in Japan, Korea and the UK. The third chapter is Fumi Kitagawa’s investigation of the impact of the ‘New Public Management’ (NPM) on British and Japanese higher education. The second section has two chapters dealing with British higher education. Ivor Crewe in the fourth chapter, discusses a shift in the balance of power between the UK government and the academy from 1960 to 2010. Next, David Watson discusses the development of British higher education since the 1960s, but focuses on diversity among universities to consider the possibility that the relationship may vary depending on differences between the universities’ missions. Review Article