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Higher Education at a Crossroad: The Case of Estonia

by Ellu Saar (Volume editor) René Mottus (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 446 Pages

Summary

In Estonia, many of the educational transitions that have taken place in developed world over decades have been condensed in just less than two decades. This book describes these transitions and addresses the current state of tertiary education from the point of views of both learners and teachers. It presents an overview of the strategy documents that steer Estonian higher education policy. The study has focused on various aspects of the learning process and learning environment. Various aspects of the teaching process were investigated from the point of view of teachers. The book has addressed the transition from higher education to the labour market. It benefits from contributions from a range of scientific disciplines, including educational sociology, educational sciences, psychology and econometrics.

Details

Pages
446
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653029413
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631637845
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02941-3
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (June)
Keywords
University teaching labour market interface Educational planning Tertiary education Psychology of teaching
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 446 pp., 64 b/w fig., 64 tables

Biographical notes

Ellu Saar (Volume editor) René Mottus (Volume editor)

Ellu Saar is a Professor at the Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University (Estonia). Her research areas are social stratification and mobility, educational inequalities, and life course studies. She is a member of Editorial Board of European Sociological Review and a member of Steering Committee of ECSR. René Mõttus is a senior researcher at the Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh (UK), and at the Department of Psychology, University of Tartu. His research interests span several areas in the broad field of human individual differences, including personality traits and processes, cognitive abilities, health and genetics.

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