Product Description: What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social contexts, educational institutions and policies in Austria and England to demonstrate a surprising number of similarities behind those who succeed using Bourdieu's concept of habitus...read more

Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality addresses the global transformation of higher education in relation to changes in the labour market. It focuses on the relative impact of elements of globalisation on social inequality, and provides insights into the ways in which these general forces of change are transformed into specific policies shaped by global forces and the various national values, institutional structures and politics of the specified societies. The book begins with a theoretical conceptualization for a comparative understanding of globalization, higher education, labour markets and inequality. This is followed by a range of mainstream accounts from an international selection of contributors of the ways in which national systems have responded to the forces of globalisation and the increasing demand for higher education graduates – in Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and the UK. Finally, contributors explore more specific concerns such as the transition from higher education to the labour market in China and Sweden, the division of the ‘knowledge’ workers into traditional social groups in the US, and the role and salience of Doctoral programmes in South Africa in developing a knowledge economy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education and Work.

Product Description: Dieses Buch ist ein Beitrag zur Bildungssoziologie und gewährt den Lesenden sowohl Grundlagenwissen als auch Einblick in aktuelle Debatten und Analysen. Es werden wichtige Klassiker der Bildungssoziologie aus dem deutsch-, englisch- und französischsprachigen Raum verständlich erläutert...read more

Product Description: Antonia Kupfer gibt einen Einblick in die US-amerikanische DoktorandInnenausbildung. Sie zeigt, dass hier bereits einiges von dem, was in Deutschland eingeführt werden soll, realisiert wurde, und regt zur Reflexion über Bedingungen sowie Vor- und Nachteile des US-amerikanischen Weges an...read more