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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author SCOTT, Peter
Title Martin Trowâ€'s elite-mass-universal triptych : Conceptualising Higher Education development / Peter Scott
Publication year 2019
Source/Footnote In: Higher education quarterly. - 73 (2019) 4, S. 496 - 506
Inventory number 48815
Keywords Wissenschaftler ; Hochschule : Idee und Aufgabe
Abstract Martin Trow was among the most influential scholar in Higher Education studies in the second half of the 20th century. He is best known for his conceptualisation of the development of Higher Education into three stages—elite, mass and universal systems. This article considers, first, his intellectual method and the underpinning theory (or lack of it); secondly, the extent to which his ideas, generated in the exceptional environment of post‐war America were, and are, relevant to different national contexts and in the very different environment of the 21st century; thirdly, the strengths—and weaknesses—of Trow’s conceptualisation of three stages of Higher Education development; and, finally the new lines of research suggested by an overall assessment of his work. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)