A History of Finnish Higher Education from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century

• Main Author: Välimaa, Jussi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Higher Education Dynamics, 52
• Subjects: Higher education.; Education-History.; Educational sociology.; Europe-History.; Higher Education.; History of Education.; Sociology of Education.; European History.

This book unravels the origins, continuities, and discontinuities of Finnish higher education as part of European higher education from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It describes the emergence of universities in the Middle Ages and the Finnish student, and moves on to the Reformation and the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Emergence of Universities in the Middle Ages
• 3. Finnish Students at Medieval Universities
• 4. From the Reformation to the End of Swedish Rule - Laying the Foundations of a National University
• 5. The Founding of the Royal Academy of Turku
• 6. The Academy of Turku During the Last Century of Swedish Rule (1720-1809)
• 7. The Age of Autonomy - the Role of Higher Education in the Building of the Nation
• 8. The Expansion of Higher Education into Practical-Utilitarian Disciplines
• 9. The First Decades of Independence - White Finland
• 10. The Development of Finland's Higher Education System After the Second World War - Towards a Welfare State
• 11. The Growth of Student Numbers and the Establishment of Polytechnics
• 12. Conclusions - The Institutional and Organisational Layers of Finnish Higher Education.