Higher Education in a State of Crisis de Roccio M. Teixeira

Higher Education in a State of Crisis

Roccio M. Teixeira

Throughout recent decades, higher education has played a steadily greater role in national development, contributing towards heightened competitiveness and turning knowledge into a factor of differentiation in both socio-economic and market contexts. This book explores the state of crisis in the global higher education realm and includes topics such as the demand and supply of higher education which is impacting unemployment; the practice of institutional integration; training teachers for vocational and technical education and the fragmentation of nursing education.

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Preface; The Demand & Supply of Higher Education Impacting Unemployment; Future of Higher Education: A View from Portugal; The Scandal of Schools of Education: Institutional Integration & the Descent of Practice; The Development & Problems of Training Teachers for Vocational & Technical Education in Turkey; University Degrees in Physical Education in Spain after the Adaptation Process to the European Higher Education Area & its Consequences; The Fragmentation of Nursing Education; Crisis from Within: Higher Education Institutions as Adaptive Knowledge-Based Organizations; Prospective Teachers' General Epistemic Curiosity & Doman-Specific Epistemic Curiosity: The Mediating Role of Perceived Instrumentality; A Perspective from a Students' Quality Circle; Implications of the DEDEPRO(TM) Model for Interactive Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process in Higher Education; Getting Back to Basics in Teacher Education; Matching Higher Education & Labor Markets in the European Higher Education Area; Turkish Industrial Design Education in a State of Crisis.