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Equity, access and democratization of higher education

2022
Georgian higher education system has been gone through different phases of reforms after the country regained its independence in 1991. In this report the major directions of the GE Higher Education are explained – with an eye to the equity, access and democratization. Although there are different types of higher educational institutions each and every
Tchkadua, Shalva, Khositashvili, Giga
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The Democratization of Higher Education in America

European Journal of Sociology, 1962
American higher education is currently undergoing an enormous and rapid expansion. Between 1939 and 1961 the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities and earning credits toward degrees rose from about 1.3 million to over 3.9 million (1).
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Accountability, Democratic Theory, and Higher Education

Educational Policy, 2003
Accountability defines the appropriate relationship between elected and nonelected officials. Herman Finer emphasized elected officials’, and Carl Friedrich emphasized nonelected officials’, professional values and knowledge to determine the actions of nonelected officials.
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Higher education in The Netherlands, democratization and internationalization

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1990
(1990). Higher education in The Netherlands, democratization and internationalization. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 153-172.
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Conclusion: Toward a Democratic Higher Education

2017
The concluding chapter, “Toward a Democratic Higher Education,” points out that India is a political democracy and states that in the picture sketched in the book, the Indian university and higher education universe emerge as an undemocratic institution in a political democracy.
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Going Public: Higher Education and the Democratization of Knowledge

2020
During the last few decades, there has been an increased emphasis on the fundamentally public nature of knowledge, understood as both the science of the experts, the personal experience of the individual, and the generally accepted wisdom of the community.
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Decoloniality as Democratic Change Within Higher Education

2019
In this chapter, Yusef Waghid and Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu argue that decoloniality is in principle an ideal of democracy since sustenance of democracy is constitutive of the civic role of higher education. For a university to fulfil its democratisation role, it is imperative that the university be non-paternalistically and incessantly connected ...
Yusef Waghid, Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu   +1 more
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Democratic Citizenship Education Revisited in Zimbabwean Higher Education

2017
The intention of this chapter is to explore the education policies that were introduced after independence to reverse the inequalities that had existed during the colonial era. The author advances an argument in defence of democratic citizenship education (DCE) that can endanger opportunities for the achievement of democracy and justice in Zimbabwe’s ...
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The planning of higher education in the German Democratic Republic

Higher Education, 1974
The points of departure, objectives and methods of higher education planning are subsumed within the total context of the social, scientific, technical and cultural development of a country and dependent upon that country's social order. In the socialist countries, all deliberations on educational planning involve the all-round development of the ...
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Renewing the Democratic Purposes of Higher Education

2019
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and ...
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, The Guardians Initiative: Reclaiming the Public Trust   +1 more
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