The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education

• Main Authors: Tapper, Ted (Author), Palfreyman, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Higher Education.; Sociology, general.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

This book will examine the relationship between collegiality and the collegial tradition in the context of the development of mass higher education. The collegial tradition in higher education has been shaped above all by the collegiate universities. In all its various forms (as commensality, as a m...

Table of Contents:

• Collegiality: Definitions and Challenges
• Collegiality: Setting the Agenda
• The Collegial Tradition in Higher Education
• Collegiality: The Contemporary Challenges
• Collegiality in Action
• Collegiality as Colleges
• The Slippery Slope Known as Federalism
• Managerialism as Collegiality: The Impossible Conjuring Trick?
• Cross-National Perspectives on Collegiality
• Lessons from America: A Comparative Perspective on the Collegial Tradition
• Lessons from Continental Europe: The Collegial Tradition as Academic Power
• Whither Collegiality?
• Collegiality Revisited: Continuity, Rejuvenation or Demise?.