Where Are We with the Harmonization of European Higher Education?: The Case of Central and East European Countries

Autor/in	Gorga, Adriana
Titel	Where Are We with the Harmonization of European Higher Education?: The Case of Central and East European Countries
Quelle	In: European Education, 39 (2008) 4, S.58-68 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-4934
DOI	10.2753/EUE1056-4934390404
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Program Implementation; Educational Assessment; Educational Development; Educational Indicators; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Educational Planning; International Education; Regional Cooperation; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Estonia; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsentwicklung; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Bildungsplanung; Internationale Erziehung; Regionale Zusammenarbeit; Bulgarien; Tschechische Republik; Estland; Ungarn; Lettland; Litauen; Polen; Rumänien; Slowakei; Slowenien
Abstract	This study analyzes the social and historical reasons for higher education reforms in Central and East European universities after the collapse of communist regimes, in order to answer the central question of this study: To what extent were the national features eliminated in Central and Eastern Europe by the implementation of the 3-5-8 model and by international competition? It identifies key moments in the unfolding of reforms in the higher education system and offers explanations for its current situation. The way that education policies were triggered by the Bologna process and the implementation of new higher education structures are explained by a transnational comparative approach, that is, to an exogenous factor (Hassenteufel 2005), namely the decisions taken at the European level starting in 1999 (the year the Bologna Declaration was signed), when the reform was first planned. This process is illustrated using examples from the social-political and academic context of 10 Central and East European countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia), which shared a fifty-year ideological past and entered a period of important transformation after 1990. (Contains 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10