Exploring Higher Education Governance in Poland and Romania: Re-Convergence after Divergence?

Autor/in	Dobbins, Michael
Titel	Exploring Higher Education Governance in Poland and Romania: Re-Convergence after Divergence?
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 16 (2017) 5, S.684-704 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/1474904116684138
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Governance; Comparative Education; Foreign Countries; Social Change; Educational Policy; Commercialization; Models; Educational Change; Global Approach; Marketing; Student Mobility; Educational Cooperation; International Cooperation; Institutional Mission; Research Universities; Educational History; Case Studies; Poland; Romania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Ausland; Sozialer Wandel; Politics of education; Analogiemodell; Bildungsreform; Globales Denken; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; cooperation; Kooperation; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Forschungseinrichtung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Polen; Rumänien
Abstract	This analysis focuses on changes in higher education governance in Poland and Romania in the post-communist era. The author applies a theoretical framework based on institutional isomorphism and historical institutionalism and maps the policy trajectories of both systems on the basis of three governance ideal-types. The public higher education systems of both countries initially took a markedly different reform path after 1989. Polish higher education by and large returned to its historical model of "academic self-rule" and has resisted pressures for stronger marketization, even during the Bologna Process, while Romania has been characterized by an early and strong isomorphic orientation towards higher education models primarily of Anglo-American inspiration. The main argument of the paper is that--after a period of marked divergence--both systems are visibly "re-converging" towards a new hybrid governance model. The new governance model aims to (re-)embed the research mission of universities to foster homegrown research and innovations. These new hybrid constellations enable both countries to simultaneously deal with global pressures for change and liberate themselves from economic dependence on the West, while not throwing historical institutions entirely overboard. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01