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E-book Technical Universities : Past, present and future

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Historically, polytechnic schools rose to prominence in many national settings dur-ing the second half of the nineteenth century (Fox and Guagnini 2004). Over time, new areas of technology have been developed and incorporated into their repertoire, and waves of academisation have swept over the former polytechnics, transforming some of them into technical universities (Christensen and Ernø-Kjølhede 2011). Their proud traditions and brands tend to prevail. Several technical universities are included among the most prestigious academic institutions of their nations and the training of engineers and engineering research still enjoy a high level of prestige and national priority, for example in the context of innovation and industrial policy (cf. Clark 1998). Many institutions that might be referred to as technical universities are also held in high regard by industry, and embraced as focal points for regional renewal and development (Lehmann and Menter 2016).Despite their often formidable success as higher education institutions (HEIs), higher education research has not concerned itself with the study of technically oriented universities as a (potential) organisational category. By no means do we argue that universities within this category of higher education institutions have been entirely absent in previous research. Technical universities feature in studies analysing university-industry interaction in engineering (Perkmann and Walsh 2009) and in historical studies of universities and individual technical universities (Fox and Guagnini 2004). Institutions with a technical profile also play prominent roles in studies discussing relations between scientific ideals and the engineering profession (see, for example, Björck 2016; van der Vleuten et al. 2017; Williams 2002), in studies on the history of engineering education (Jørgensen 2007), as well as in the broader literature on the sociology of higher education (Gumport 2007).Whereas such previous studies have addressed technical universities in relation to the education of engineers and the provision of engineering education, the start-ing point for this volume is an interest in technical universities as organisations. Scholarly interest in what HEIs known as ‘technical university’, ‘university of tech-nology’, ‘institute of technology’, or similar have in common today is warranted to better understand historical and contemporary ideals embedded in this type of organisation. Empirically, the volume limits its scope to Europe whilst drawing on experiences from various national contexts, but it also relates to other settings where necessary to understand the respective European settings that the volume engages with.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

378 LAR t

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

245 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030505554

Klasifikasi

378

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Higher Education, Universities

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