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From Actors to Reforms in European Higher Education

A Festschrift for Pavel Zgaga

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Editors:
  1. Manja Klemenčič

    1. Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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  • Discusses the theoretically underdeveloped conceptions of actors and actorhood in theoretical models of higher education
  • Brings together 35 contributors including leading scholars in the field from 16 countries and five continents
  • Celebrates the intellectual legacy of Professor Pavel Zgaga, an accomplished and prominent scholar on higher education

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 58)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: From Actors to Reforms in European Higher Education

    • Manja Klemenčič
    Pages 1-24

  3. Pavel Zgaga: Actor in Reforms of Higher Education

    • Slavko Gaber
    Pages 25-33

  4. Reforming European Higher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. The Silent Treks of Transformative Thinkers and Successful Reformers in Higher Education: A European Experience

      • Liviu Matei
      Pages 37-44

    3. The Myth of Power: Governing Reform in the Bologna Process of Higher Education

      • Robert Wagenaar
      Pages 45-63

    4. From the EHEA to the EEA: Renewed State-Making Ambitions in the Regional Governance of Education in Europe

      • Susan L. Robertson, Kris Olds, Roger Dale
      Pages 65-76

    5. Pavel Zgaga and Bologna Actors: Policymaking on the External Dimension and the Bologna Policy Forum, 2003–2009

      • Anne Corbett
      Pages 77-93

    6. Cooperation in Higher Education Before and Beside the European Higher Education Area: Slovenia and Austria

      • Elsa Hackl
      Pages 95-106

    7. Higher Education in Two Countries from ex-Yugoslav Federation: 30 Years of Constitutional Embracement

      • Aleksa Bjeliš
      Pages 107-123

  6. Social Dimension in Higher Education and Democracy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Unpacking the Social Dimension of Universities

      • Peter Scott
      Pages 199-211

    3. Tuition Fees and University Reforms

      • Zdenko Kodelja
      Pages 213-223

    4. The Democratic Role and Public Responsibility of Higher Education and Science

      • Åse Gornitzka, Peter Maassen
      Pages 225-238
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About this book

This volume addresses the conceptions of actors and actorhood in higher education research. It explores the range of actors that are (or should be) recognized and theorized in higher education research, the processes that shape actorhood in the higher education reforms and explores the relations between the actors and higher education reforms. Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and research projects, the volume provides in-depth analyses of higher education actors and reform issues through institutional, system or international comparative perspective. The volume celebrates and is in conversation with the intellectual contributions of Professor Pavel Zgaga whose work advances our understanding of actors and actorhood in higher education and higher education reforms.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Manja Klemenčič

About the editor

Manja Klemenčič is Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology of Higher Education and in General Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University and Associate Researcher, Centre of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana. Manja’s main research is on students’ impact on higher education through representation, service roles, campus employment, consumerism, and activism. She also works on student agency in student-centered learning and teaching, and a broad range of other higher education topics. Since 2014, Manja serves as Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Higher Education, and since 2015 as Co-Editor of the academic book series Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education. She co-edited The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions (Springer, 2020) and The Routledge International Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Routledge, 2020). Manja wonmultiple awards for excellence in teaching at Harvard, and regularly acts as a consultant for international organizations and governments on higher education policies and programs.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Actors to Reforms in European Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: A Festschrift for Pavel Zgaga

  • Editors: Manja Klemenčič

  • Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09400-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09399-9Published: 06 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09402-6Published: 07 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09400-2Published: 05 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1571-0378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education

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