Higher Education Studies

Code:

DE230

Acronym:

EES

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Social Studies/Public Policies / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S (since 21-09-2020 to 19-12-2020)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/ucurr_adm.ficha_uc_edit?pv_ocorrencia_id=426388
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	10	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The curricular unit aims to summon the critical mass around higher education as object of study to not only to serve academic research, but also to provide a more solid analytical basis for supporting decision-making competences policies, particularly at the institutional level. Thus, higher education policies, especially the Portuguese ones, will be considered based on a deepening of the historical developments, specificities and objectives of higher education. Given the profile of graduates, SHE aims to increase individual, social and professional reflexivity and, in these terms, to create and consolidate competences to support the management of higher education institutions.

 

• To identify the historical-social construction of the concept of higher education.


• To conceptualise the various meanings of university, from the medieval matrix to its modern formulations


• To conceptualise the relationship between the development of higher education institutions and the development of the economic and cultural systems within which they evolve.


• To clarify the evolution of the forms of state regulation and the forms of autonomy of higher education institutions.


• To theorise the diversification of forms of higher education from an international and national perspective.


• To relate the forms of diversification of higher education with the current socio-economic contexts, especially with regard to the needs imposed by the globalization of the economy.


• To identify  the emerging forms of management categorized as managerialism.


• To know about the development of Portuguese higher education. 

Learning outcomes and competences

• Knowledge of the characteristics of the field of study and the theroetical and methodological approaches.


• Identification of the historical-social construction of the concept of higher education.


• Conceptual delimitation of the various meanings of university, from the medieval matrix to its modern formulations.


• Conceptualisation of the relationship between the development of higher education institutions and the development of the economic and cultural systems within which they evolve.


• Knowledge of the evolution of the forms of state regulation and the forms of autonomy of higher education institutions.


• Knowledge of the diversification of forms of higher education from an international and national perspective.


• Ability to relate the forms of diversification of higher education with the current socio-economic contexts, especially with regard to the needs imposed by the globalization of the economy.


• Knowledge on the emerging forms of management categorized as managerialism.


• Knowledge on the development of Portuguese higher education.


• Mobilization of knowledge of the specificity of higher education and its institutions to support and advise the decision-making processes in HEIs, namely in the areas of academic training and organization, student support, employability, support for strategic studies, improvement of teaching and learning processes, communication and image, international relations, support for research and development

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

n.a.

Program

III. From the modern matrix of higher education to the governance of higher education systems 

1. Newman and Humboldt and the "public narratives" of legitimation of higher education.


2. Capitalism and the development of the university.


3. From liberal capitalism to organized capitalism: from the "ivory tower" to the "massification" of higher education.


4. Higher education systems: unitary, binary, unified and stratified systems.


5. Disorganized capitalism and new forms of state regulation - From state control to state oversight.


6. The emergence of the "market" as a form of regulation and the rise of the "entrepreneurial universities" and the managerial rationale.

IV. Portugal as a case study

1. The monopoly of the University of Coimbra from the XIIIth century to the. XXth and the development of the Portuguese higher education system: from an elite system to the binary mass system


2. Binarism and the rise of the private sector


3. The consolidation and Europeanization of higher education standards.


4. Massification of the system and its political management: autonomy and evaluation as political instruments.


5. New forms of governance of institutions and managerialism.

Mandatory literature

AMARAL, Alberto, CORREIA, Fernanda, MAGALHÃES, António, ROSA, Maria João, SANTIAGO, Rui, e TEIXEIRA, Pedro; O Ensino Superior pela Mão da Economia, CIPES, 2002
CLARK, Burton ; The Higher Education System: Academic Organization in Cross-National Perspective., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983
GELLERT, C.; Higher Education in Europe, Londres: Jessica Kingsley Publishers., 1993
MAGALHÃES, António M.; A Identidade do Ensino Superior: Política, Conhecimento e Educação numa Época de Transição., Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 411 pp., 2004
RÜEGG, Walter ; A História da Universidade na Europa, vol. I. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda. , 1984
SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa ; Da Ideia de Universidade à Universidade de Ideias, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 27-28, pp. 11-62., 1989
SCOTT, Peter ; The Meanings of Mass Higher Education, London: The Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University., 1995
Veiga, Amélia, Magalhães, António M., Sousa, Sofia, Ribeiro, Filipa e Amaral, Alberto; A Reconfiguração da gestão universitária em Portugal, Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 41, 7-23., 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

Face to face and online lectures

Team work

Field Work

Face to face and online presentation by the students

Writing and organizing an essay

Face to face and online supervision

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	20,00
Estudo autónomo	45,00
Frequência das aulas	33,00
Trabalho de campo	8,00
Trabalho de investigação	34,00
Trabalho escrito	22,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The students must attend at least 75% of the sessions.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark of the curricular unit is expressed in a 0-20 scale.

The involvement of the students in tasks i. will be evaluated with a maximum of 25% of the 0-20 scale. The draft of the paper referred to in ii. and the paper referred to in iii. will be assessed with a maximum of 75% of the 0-20 scale. The final mark is the result of the sum of the two components of the process [(i+ii) + iii] = final mark). The tasks i. and ii. without the final paper will not be evaluated. In this situation, students can use the extra assessment forms.

The students legally authorised to not attending the sessions will deliver, besides the paper referred above, two reports on the bibliography about theme IV.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n.a.

Internship work/project

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students legally authorised to not attending the sessions will deliver, besides the paper referred above, two reports on the bibliography about theme IV.

Classification improvement

Those students wishing to improve their evaluation or those who not meet regular procedures can (re)write the paper or be submitted to an oral examination about it.

Observations

Considering the operational recommendations for maintaining face-to-face teaching and non-teaching activities, under the impossibility of guaranteeing face-to-face activities due to the lack of physical facilities able to accommodate with security the number of students in this cycle of studies in the 1st semester of 2020/2021 in the current pandemic context, this UC will partially take place at a distance, with synchronous moments, using telematic means.