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The Dynamics of Change in Higher EducationField Contraction

The Dynamics of Change in Higher Education: Field Contraction [Bleiklie (2004) has pointed to the fact that whereas a small higher education system lends itself to informal mechanisms of management and control, the strong growth and emergence of an institutionally and socially far more heterogeneous and functionally more complex system has been followed by the introduction of more formal mechanisms of management control and the rise of stronger administrative apparatuses. In a Norwegian context, the development towards an increasingly differentiated and diversified college sector eventually called for measures to counteract further fragmentation of the organisational field and to reverse the centrifugal processes. We can distinguish between four such measures – authority unification, institutional dedifferentiation, programme coordination, and field homogenisation. These processes can be subsumed under the common notion of field contraction in order to illuminate some of the horizontal integration processes in the college sector.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Dynamics of Change in Higher EducationField Contraction

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The Dynamics of Change in Higher Education — Jan 1, 2009
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Netherlands 2009
ISBN
978-1-4020-9245-9
Pages
83 –108
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-9248-0_5
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Abstract

[Bleiklie (2004) has pointed to the fact that whereas a small higher education system lends itself to informal mechanisms of management and control, the strong growth and emergence of an institutionally and socially far more heterogeneous and functionally more complex system has been followed by the introduction of more formal mechanisms of management control and the rise of stronger administrative apparatuses. In a Norwegian context, the development towards an increasingly differentiated and diversified college sector eventually called for measures to counteract further fragmentation of the organisational field and to reverse the centrifugal processes. We can distinguish between four such measures – authority unification, institutional dedifferentiation, programme coordination, and field homogenisation. These processes can be subsumed under the common notion of field contraction in order to illuminate some of the horizontal integration processes in the college sector.]

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: Teacher Training; Preschool Teacher; County Council; Organisational Field; College Sector

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