| Description |
xxiii, 331 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Retreat from the Critical -- Part I: Theorising the Modern University -- 1. Disinterested Scholars or Interested Parties? The Public's Investment in Self-interested Universities -- 2. Critical Theory and the New University: Reflections on Time and Technology -- 3. Gendered Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Prestige Factor: How Philosophy Survives Market Rationality -- Part II: Markets, Managers and Mandarins -- 4. What's to be Explained? And is it so Bad? -- 5. Higher Education 'Markets' and University Governance -- 6. Transforming the Public University: Market Citizenship and Higher Education Regulatory Projects -- 7. The State of the Universities --Part III: Education for the 'Real World' --8. The Modern University and its Transaction with Students --9. Markets, Discipline, Students: Governing Student Conduct and Performance in the University -- 10. 'Selling the dream': Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice -- Part IV: Conditions of Knowledge Production -- 11. Disciplining Academic Women: Gender Restructuring and the Labour of Research in Entrepreneurial Universities -- 12. Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy -- Part V: Telling It How It Is -- 13. A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change -- 14. 'Smoking Guns': Reflections on Truth and Politics in the University -- Part VI: University Futures? -- 15. Seeking the Necessary 'Resources of Hope' in the Neoliberal University |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia would go further and deregulate fees altogether. In the best tradition of the social sciences, the contributors have assumed the role of critic and conscience of society to present penetrating analyses of the ramifications of the corporatisation of the university as neoliberalism continues to occupy the ascendant position in the political firmament. The dramatis personae in these analyses are students, academics, managers and political mandarins with the gendered character of corporatisation an important sub-theme"--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-331) |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Education, Higher -- Australia -- Evaluation.
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Educational change -- Australia.
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Higher education and state -- Australia.
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Australia.
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| Author |
Thornton, Margaret, editor
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Australian National University Press.
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Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
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| LC no. |
2014481348 |
| ISBN |
1925022137 |
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1925022145 |
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9781925022131 |
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9781925022148 |
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