Higher Education in Portugal 1974-2009: A Nation, a Generation

Preface.- List of Contributors.- About the Editors.- About the Authors.- 1. Introduction: On Exceptionalism: the Nation, a Generation and Higher Education. Portugal 1974-2009; Guy Neave and Alberto Amaral.- Part I. Shaping the Nation.- 2. National Identity and Higher Education: From the Origins till 1974; José Manuel Sobral.- 3.University, Society and Politics; Luis Reis Torgal.- 4. Cultural and Educational Heritage, Social Structure and Quality of Life; José Madureira Pinto.- 5. From an Agrarian Society to a Knowledge Economy? The Rising Importance of Education to the Portuguese Economy, 1950-2009; Álvaro Santos Pereira and Pedro Lains.- Part II. Shaping Higher Learning.- 6. From University to Diversity: The Making of Portuguese Higher Education; Ana Nuñes de Almeida and Maria Manuel Vieira.- 7.Changing Legal Regimes and the Fate of Autonomy in Portuguese Universities; Maria Eduarda Gonçalvez.- 8.Science and Technology in Portugal: From Late Awakening to the Challenge of Knowledge Integrated Communities; Manuel Heitor and Hugo Horta.- 9. Governance, Public Management and Administration of Higher Education in Portugal; António M. Magalhães and Rui Santiago.- 10. Quality, Evaluation and Accreditation: from Steering, through Compliance, on to Enhancement and Innovation?; Maria J. Rosa and Cláudia S. Sarrico.- 11.The Impacts of Bologna and of the Lisbon Agenda; Amélia Veiga and Alberto Amaral.- Part III. Shaping the Institutional Fabric.- 12. Patterns of Institutional Management: Democratisation, Autonomy and the Managerialist Canon; Licíno C. Lima.- 13.The Changing Public-Private Mix in Higher Education: Analysing Portugal’s apparent Exceptionalism; Pedro N. Teixeira.- 14.Shaping the ’new’ Academic Profession: Tensions and Contradictions in the Professionalisation of Academics; Teresa Carvalho.- 15.The Rise of the Administrative Estate in Portuguese Higher Education; Maria de Lourdes Machado and Maria Luisa Cerdeira.- 16.The Student Estate; Madalena Fonseca.- Index.