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Project Duration: 2011 - 2013

Category: Projects

Higher education is becoming increasingly important in knowledge societies and, simultaneously, undergoing a rapid and profound change. The present project explores contemporary transformations
of higher education from below through ethnographic studies of university departments. Conceptually, it is framed by theories of massification of higher education (Trow) and of academic capitalism (Slaughter et al.) which it strives to further develop and critically revise. Research team members conduct ethnographic  fieldwork at five departments selected to represent the diversity within Czech higher education, exploring how the contemporary transformations of higher education play out in the concrete practices of higher education: teaching, learning, research and knowledge transfer.

Principal Investigator:

Themes:

Public Policy, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Related Publications:

A tool for learning or a tool for cheating? The many-sided effects of a participatory student website in mass higher education

A tool for learning or a tool for cheating? The many-sided effects of a participatory student website in mass higher education This paper is a case study of the ge…

Topics: sociologievedy, vzdelani

Publication Type: impaktovanyclanek

Department: Gender & Sociology

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