REORGANIZATION, DIFFERENTIATION AND GROWTH IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CASE OF ISTANBUL (1980-2015)
Abstract
In this article, the world of higher education of
İstanbul in thirty-five years of growth in the number of students and institutions,
its systemic growth, chaotic change, and structural bifurcation in the early
1980s until the end of 2015 is elaborated. The growth trends in state
universities in this period; the onset of education of the foundations of
higher education in 1993 and the increasing number of universities triggering a
dramatic expansion in terms of students and lecturers in post 2006; the
differentiation, and the patterns of differentiation shaped by the distribution
of populace in higher education to varied programs are compared. The emergence
of higher education foundations and the dramatic increase in their numbers have
resulted in an urban upheaval of higher education in terms of scale, structure
and institutions. Since more than half of all private universities in Turkey are
located in İstanbul, this brings a distinctive change more so than any other
city in Turkey. The chaotic change and organizational fracturing in terms of
agents, institutions, organizations and dispositions in a thirty-five year
period is astonishing. Owing to financial privatization in the last twenty
years, in the field of higher education the lines of competence and structural
tensions have been crystallized, generating a binary structure consisting of
state-owned and private-owned institutions of higher education. The article
discusses the growth and the reorganization of this change in a descriptive statistical
basis.
Keywords
References
- Altun, Mehmet, Dünden Bugüne Boğaziçi Üniversitesi 1863-2013, İstanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2013.
- Bender, Thomas (der.), The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Berman, Elizabeth Popp, Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, s.12-17.
- Boudon, Raymond, “Education and Social Mobility: A Structural Model”, Power and Ideology in Education, Jerome Karabel & A. H. Halsey (der.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, s. 186-196.
- Bourdieu, Pierre, Jean Claude Passeron, Yeniden Üretim: Eğitim Sistemine İlişkin Bir Teorinin İlkeleri, çev. Levent Ünsaldı ve Aslı Sümer, Ankara: Heretik Yayınları, 2015.
- Bowles, Samuel “Unequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor”, Power and Ideology in Education, Jerome Karabel & A. H. Halsey (der.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, s. 137-153
- Bowles, Samuel, Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, New York: Basic Books, 1977.
- Byrne, David, Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: An Introduction, London: Routledge, 1998.
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
-
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Alim Arlı
This is me
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 20, 2016
Submission Date
January 11, 2017
Acceptance Date
January 11, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2016 Number: 54