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Technical Universities

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 56)

Editors: Geschwind, Lars; Broström, Anders; Larsen, Katarina

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50555-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-50554-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 29, 2020

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Organisational Identities, Boundaries, and Change Processes of Technical Universities

Larsen, Katarina; Geschwind, Lars; Broström, Anders

Pages: 1 –14

[The volume is concerned with how technical universities respond to external influences but also are guided by internal processes of identity formation and reshaping of ideals and boundaries. In this chapter, we present two lines of inquiry and introduce the chapter contributions of the volume....
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Chapter 2Technical Universities: A Historical Perspective

Geschwind, Lars; Broström, Anders

Pages: 15 –26

[This chapter provides an overview of the historical development of technical institutes and universities from their foundation in the late eighteenth century to the present time. Our account, which is focused on European experiences, shows that technical universities are characterized by their...
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Chapter 3Are Some Technical Universities Better Than Others?

Benner, Mats

Pages: 27 –43

[Technical universities is an omnibus concept, which may conceal variations. This is the fundamental assumption of this chapter, which deals with three technical universities in three European countries: KTH in Sweden, DTU in Denmark, and EPFL in Switzerland. Based on an analysis of scientific...
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Chapter 4The Position of Technical Universities Within Changing Frameworks of Institutional Organisation and Steering: The Case of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Vabø, Agnete; Langfeldt, Liv

Pages: 45 –59

[In Norway, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is regarded as the preeminent technological university. Within the framework of the massification of higher education, the institution’s status and autonomy have been challenged by changing state governance and social...
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Chapter 5Understanding the Development of Technical Universities in Poland

Antonowicz, Dominik

Pages: 61 –77

[The chapter examines the past, discusses the present and speculates about the future outlook of technical universities, which perform an important though often undervalued role in Polish higher education. The study offers an interesting analysis of – undoubtedly under-researched type of higher...
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Chapter 6Formalised Boundaries Between Polytechnics and Technical Universities: Experiences from Portugal and Finland

Carvalho, Teresa; Diogo, Sara

Pages: 79 –101

[The chapter demonstrates the relevance of contextual factors in the potential transformation of non-university institutions into ‘technical universities’. The phenomena of professional and academic drift have challenged the pertinence of the existence of binary Higher Education (HE) systems....
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Chapter 7Technical Universities in Germany: On Justification of the Higher Education and Research Markets

Schneijderberg, Christian

Pages: 103 –144

[The chapter presents both an overview of technical universities (TUs) in Germany, and how the methodological and theoretical approach of the orders of worth framework by Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) is useful for analyzing public organizations/forms. Guided by the research questions a) “How do...
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Chapter 8Integrating the Academic and Professional Values in Engineering Education – Ideals and Tensions

Edström, Kristina

Pages: 145 –164

[Higher engineering education is simultaneously academic, emphasising theory in a range of subjects, and professional, preparing students for engineering practice. While technical universities hold this “dual nature” as an ideal, it is also a source of tensions. The pursuit of the ideal in...
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Chapter 9Technical Identity in a MergerProcess—Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Vellamo, Tea; Pekkola, Elias; Siekkinen, Taru; Cai, Yuzhuo

Pages: 165 –190

[University mergers are sites of self-reflection where the identities of the institutions in question are juxtaposed and challenged. We examine the organisational identity of a Finnish single-faculty technical university in the context of a merger process with a comprehensive multi-disciplinary...
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Chapter 10Engineering Academisation: The Transition of Lower Level Engineering Education from Upper Secondary School Level to Higher Education

Fagrell, Per; Geschwind, Lars

Pages: 191 –210

[In Sweden, engineering education at the upper secondary school level was transformed in the early 1990s into a 2-year programme at the higher education level. This development could be seen as an opportunity for higher education institutions to expand the volume of engineering programmes, but...

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