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Values and beliefs in Higher Education (HE) can be approached in a two-sided ways: as a by-product of its interaction with the many stakeholders, both from within and from outside its institutional space; as the role played by HE in the building up of the country knowledge regime.
Higher education is drenched in values and beliefs. As an example, since the nineteenth century, building up a national university has been regarded as a large step in affirming the national soul, and, in almost all countries, such universities are charged with responsibilities related to preserving and promoting the national heritage. In some developing countries, the national university is so central in society that it has special prerogatives, such as indicating names to the country’s supreme courts, curators for the national museums, and other relevant symbolic roles.
One central institutional attribute of almost all...
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Balbachevsky, E. (2017). Values and Beliefs in Higher Education. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_339-1
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