The ghosts of higher education reform: On the organizational processes surrounding policy borrowing

Globalisation, Societies and Education

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 520-541

  Brøgger, Katja ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Globalisation; Hauntology and entanglement and time ; Higher education; Organisational change; The Bologna process as policy borrowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897117596     PISSN: 14767724     EISSN: 14767732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2014.901905     Document Type: Article

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