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Capacity-Building Projects in African Higher Education: Issues of Coloniality in International Academic Collaboration
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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Madsen, Lene Møller – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article studies issues of coloniality in so-called capacity-building projects between universities in Africa and Scandinavia. Even fifty years after independence, the African higher education landscape is a product of the colonial powers and subsequent uneven power relations, as argued by a number of researchers. The uneven geography and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Policy
Conformity or Confusion? Changing Higher Education Grading Scales as a Part of the Bologna Process: The Cases of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
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Dahl, Bettina; Lien, Eirik; Lindberg-Sand, Asa – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2009
The aim of the Bologna Process is to make higher education systems across Europe more transparent. It is crucial for this purpose that confusion concerning the characteristics of the systems should be replaced by conformity. But, as we will show, conformity brought about at one level may create confusion at another. The curricular aspect of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Grades (Scholastic), Measures (Individuals), Grading
The Reformed Social Sciences to Reform the University: Mission Impossible?
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Greenwood, Davydd J.; Levin, Morten – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
The core argument is that social science must re-examine its mission and praxis in order to be a significant player in future higher education. This article reviews the results and prospects arising from a four-year international project. Originating in Greenwood and Levin's concern about the social sciences, the project, funded by the Ford…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Sciences, Social Scientists
Knowledge, Society, Higher Education and the Society of Control
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Hostaker, Roar; Vabo, Agnete – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
Research and higher education are, to a greater extent, being governed and evaluated by other than fellow scholars. These changes are discussed in relation to Gilles Deleuze's notion of a transition from "societies of discipline" to what he called "societies of control". This involves a shift from pyramid-shaped organisations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Government School Relationship, Intellectual Disciplines
Are British Higher Educational Concerns Different from European Higher Educational Concerns?
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Mangset, Marte – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
British universities are known among the other Bologna countries not to have adjusted fully to the new common three-tier degree structure. Is it the case that British higher educational concerns are different from Continental concerns? A study of recent developments in two British graduate schools of history shows that a three-tier study structure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees
Qualifications Frameworks for the European Higher Education Area: A New Instrumentalism or "Much Ado about Nothing"?
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Karseth, Berit – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
The purpose of this article is to explore the development of qualifications frameworks as a key element in the Bologna Process, which aims to develop a European Higher Education Area by 2010. By setting up descriptors of learning outcomes, a European qualifications framework is intended as an instrument that enables Europe to coordinate and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Student Mobility