Elite Formation and Hither Education Institutions

精英培育及高等教育机构

• 批准号: 199424489
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Manfred Stock
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Hochschulforschung Wittenberg (HoF) e.V. an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/199424489?language=en
• 关键词: Elite; Formation; Hither; Education; Institutions

The research project aims at investigating the social construction of `elite education in German higher education in `statu nascendi. It hereby focusses on describing the ways in which stratificatory differences are introduced into the field of higher education. Analyzing the logics of such stratifications are key to understanding the social construction of `elite education`. For German higher education that has so far been viewed as rather egalitarian, the analysis of differentiating attributes can explain why and how alumni of certain higher education institutions and programs can be seen as superior, and in the long run as elite. The project investigates two variants in which claims for superiority are made within higher education. First (A) we look at higher education institutions that aim to distinguish themselves by claiming to educate specific leaders for different parts of society. Second (B) we investigate programs for PhD-qualification (graduate schools) that claim to educate excellent junior researchers, thereby referring to their distinct position in the field. During the first project phase such organizational `promoters of stratification have been identified through field analyses and scrutinized through in-depth case studies in order to describe differentiating attributes. Especially, attributes that are enacted across both variants (A) and (B) were carved out.Against this background, we now expect that the `promoters of stratification and the identified stratificatory attributes trigger effects in the field of higher education institutions as a whole. The analysis of these effects is the subject of the second project phase. The central question is how other higher education institutions react to the stratificatory differentiations that have been mobilized by the promoters. Do other higher education institutions align themselves to the same differentiating logics in order to catch up with the top? Or do they rather elude from such logics and possibly even push forward alternative criteria that promote vertical differentiation? In order to answer these questions we plan to undertake a further field analysis and then again identify cases for in-depth investigation. Organizational claims for rank differentiation respectively the contesting of the introduction or the validity of certain stratificatory differentiations will be analyzed with respect to the following dimensions: (a) curriculum, (b) organizational arrangements, (c) selection criteria and processes, (d) student choice. In this way the research project elite formation and higher education institutions addresses the institutional mechanisms of student choice selection, distinction, and coherence, as they are elaborated in the framework of the research group.

该研究项目旨在调查纳斯森迪州德国高等教育中精英教育的社会结构。在此，重点描述了将分层差异引入高等教育领域的方式。分析这些分层的逻辑，是理解精英教育社会建构的关键。对于迄今被视为相当平等主义的德国高等教育来说，对不同属性的分析可以解释为什么以及如何被某些高等教育机构和项目的校友视为优秀，并从长远来看是精英。该项目调查了两种声称在高等教育中具有优越性的变体。首先，我们着眼于那些旨在通过声称为社会不同部分培养特定领导人而脱颖而出的高等教育机构。第二(B)我们调查那些声称培养优秀初级研究人员的博士资格项目(研究生院)，从而提到它们在该领域的独特地位。在第一个项目阶段，通过实地分析确定了这种组织分层的“推动者”，并通过深入的案例研究对其进行了仔细审查，以描述不同的属性。在这一背景下，我们现在预计，分层的推动者和已确定的分层属性将在整个高等教育机构领域引发影响。对这些影响的分析是第二项目阶段的主题。中心问题是，其他高等教育机构如何应对推动者已经动员起来的分层差异。其他高等教育机构是否也遵循同样的差异化逻辑来追赶榜首？或者，他们是不是避开了这样的逻辑，甚至可能推进了促进垂直差异化的替代标准？为了回答这些问题，我们计划进行进一步的实地分析，然后再次查明需要深入调查的案件。(A)课程设置；(B)组织安排；(C)遴选标准和程序；(D)学生选择。通过这种方式，研究项目精英形成和高等教育机构解决了学生选择、区分和一致性的体制机制，因为它们是在研究小组的框架内详细阐述的。