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Higher education for regional social cohesion
TABLE OF CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION
Table of contents
Gabriella Pusztai - Adrian Hatos: Introduction. Theoretical considerations about the multidimensional support of higher education for regional social cohesion
Florica Ştefănescu: Social and Economic Change - Windows of Opportunity for the Young Generation
Sorana Săveanu: Education and Society. Theoretical Approaches of the Role of Educational Attainment
Adrian Hatos - Andrea Suta: Student Persistence in Higher Education. A Literature Review
Gabriella Pusztai - Sergiu Bălţătescu - Klára Kovács - Szilvia Barta: Social Capital and Student Well-being in Higher Education. A Theoretical Framework
Veronika Bocsi: Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Possibilities of Values in Connection with a Romanian-Hungarian Comparative Study
Floare Chipea - Zsolt Botond Bottyan: Theoretical Aspects of Integration of Disadvantaged Students in Higher Education
Emese Belényi - Gábor Flóra - Éva Szolár: Minority Higher Education in Romania: a Contextual Analysis
Gyöngyi Bujdosó - Ágnes Engler - Hajnalka Fényes - Zsuzsa Zsófia Tornyi: Gender Differences in Higher Education in the "Partium" Region
Tamás Kozma - Károly Teperics - Zoltán Tőzsér - Edina Kovács: Lifelong Learning in a Cross-Border Setting: the Case of Hungary and Romania. A Quest of Concepts, Data and Research
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Introduction
Recent volume summarizes foundational theoretical considerations before the
international survey gathered in peripheral higher educational region of
EU. The investigated cross-border area is characterized by common history
of economics, society and education. However, the overpowering logic of the
political and economic path in the last decades resulted in not only a
disadvantaged, peripheral status but such a degree of social inequality,
cultural diversity, regional fragmentation and general distrust that
prevented it from sizing opportunities and challenges. As member states
of the EU, the area was given the possibility to solve this situation,
although it is apparent that a dynamic engine is necessary for development.
Since higher education was capable of providing such an inspiration in
several European regions, we have been examining the role of higher
education in a region's social and economic transformation and the degree
to which expanded higher education is capable of answering those regional
social demands that it is inspired to undertake. The current research
project interprets the role of higher education in terms of its function
in supporting social cohesion, its contribution to establish common social
knowledge that is based on recognizing and harmonizing individual and
collective interests and the ability for cooperation.
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