Overview
- Discusses what it means to be a technical university in the 21st century
- Draws on empirical, conceptual and theoretical studies of technical universities in Europe
- Offers a uniquely focused discussion of existential concerns for the technical university of the 21st century
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 56)
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This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and dimensioning of national higher education systems, to changes in the disciplinary basis of academic research and to changes in the governance of higher education institutions.
Introduced in the age of industrialization, polytechnical schools rose to prominence in many national settings during the second half of the 19th century. Over time, new technologies have been developed and incorporated into the repertoire, and waves of academisation have swept over the former polytechnics, transforming them into technical universities. Their traditions and brands, however, prevail. Several technical universities are included among the most prestigious academic institutions of their nations and the training of engineers and engineering research still enjoys a high level of prestige and national priority, e.g. in the context of innovation and industrial policy. But the world keeps changing, and the higher education sector with it. Will technical universities have an equally attractive position within university systems in the decades to come?
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Keywords
- historical perspective of technical universities
- polytechnical universities
- external pressure at technical universities
- university governance regimes
- engineering academisation
- professional values in engineering education
- identity formation at technical universities
- university-industry interaction
- university merger process
- double degree programmes in engineering and education
- Open Access
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technical Universities
Book Subtitle: Past, present and future
Editors: Lars Geschwind, Anders Broström, Katarina Larsen
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50555-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50554-7Published: 29 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50557-8Published: 24 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50555-4Published: 28 August 2020
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 242
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, History of Education, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership