TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keiko Yokoyama
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653035902
TI  - Reasoning Higher Education Change
T2  - Structure, Agency and Culture
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03590-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047878
N2  - The purpose of this book is to explain higher education change and resistance to change. The book explores Giddens’ structuration theory and Archer’s critical realism by clarifying cultural conditioning and integrating structural, agency and cultural conditionings within the context of higher education change and continuity. The book argues that we can explain higher education change by shifts in one or more conditions in structure, agency and culture, which enable higher education to transform into another form. It proposes two models for illustrating the relationships between the three conditionings that bring about higher education change. It supports the concepts of duality and reflexivity, denying analytical dualism.
KW  - Bildugnsreform, Agency approach, Reflexivität: Integration
LA  - English
ER  -