With Bologna in Mind and the Sword in the Hand: The German Bachelor/Master Reform Reconsidered

Autor/in	Mause, Karsten
Titel	With Bologna in Mind and the Sword in the Hand: The German Bachelor/Master Reform Reconsidered
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 26 (2013) 3, S.325-347 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2013.4
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; International Cooperation; Educational Policy; Student Mobility; Masters Degrees; Bachelors Degrees; Educational Change; Curriculum; Governance; Case Studies; Policy Analysis; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Bildungsreform; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Politikfeldanalyse; Deutschland
Abstract	Since the late 1990s, many European countries have adapted their traditional one-cycle curriculum structure in higher education to the two-cycle structure employed in the Anglo-American world. In the large social science literature dealing with this reform phenomenon, the Bologna Process -- starting with the 1999 Declaration of Bologna -- is identified as the major force of change. Illustrated by the German case, this paper argues that the soft-governance mechanism 'Bologna' certainly constitutes an important driver and explanatory factor but cannot fully explain curriculum reform success. It is demonstrated that German state governments used classic tools of government -- hard governance via rules and bans -- to force higher education institutions to substitute traditional programmes with new Bachelor/Master programmes. This case study might stimulate further research investigating whether this "governance by coercion", which has been neglected in previous research, also played an important role in other Bologna countries in which similar curricular reforms occurred. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10