World-systems analysis and curriculum theory

Starnawski, Marcin; Griffiths, Tom

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.03017-7

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“…According to these definitions, most of the post-2004 EU can be defined as semiperiphery, including (countries with) universities with medical programmes in English and German. As their visibility and recognition in international higher education is lower than that of the centre, semi-peripheral countries develop distinctive attractiveness capacities and assets to increase their attractiveness and solve internal challenges such as the underfunding of higher education (Sin et al 2021;Starnawski-Griffiths 2023). The state supports this development by regulating immigration and promoting academic capitalism while leaving the detailed implementation to universities (Bamberger et al 2019).…”

Section: The Higher Education Semi-periphery In the European Unionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies of Social Reproduction: Medical Students from Germany in Central and Eastern Europe from a Centre–Periphery Perspective

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2023

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Higher education degrees from European Union countries are automatically recognised in other Member States. However, legal recognition does not necessarily translate into symbolic recognition in the profession. This dynamic can be observed in the field of medicine in Germany, where German graduates often face symbolic devaluation when they graduate in certain other countries and return to work in Germany. At the same time, the group of foreign medical students is socially exclusive, and admission to a medical programme in Germany is difficult and unsuccessful for many applicants. Based on the theory of symbolic power and capital and a centre–periphery perspective, this paper reconstructs the means and ways by which privileged students from the centre, Germany, seek social reproduction by studying medicine abroad in the semi-periphery, Hungary, Latvia and Romania. The results show that moving to the semi-periphery is only chosen when other alternatives in the centre are not feasible. Certain symbolic disadvantages of studying abroad were identified, and countermeasures were developed to ensure symbolic legitimacy upon return. The results also show that the semi-periphery is not homogeneous in its symbolic ambivalence from a centre–periphery perspective.

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Section: The Higher Education Semi-periphery In the European Unionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies of Social Reproduction: Medical Students from Germany in Central and Eastern Europe from a Centre–Periphery Perspective

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2023

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World-systems analysis and curriculum theory

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Strategies of Social Reproduction: Medical Students from Germany in Central and Eastern Europe from a Centre–Periphery Perspective

Strategies of Social Reproduction: Medical Students from Germany in Central and Eastern Europe from a Centre–Periphery Perspective

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