| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 331 pages) : color illustrations |
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Introduction : The Retreat from the Critical / Margaret Thornton |
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Part I: Theorising the modern university. Disinterested Scholars or Interested Parties? The Public's Investment in Self-interested Universities / Hannah Forsyth -- Critical theory and the new university : reflections on time and technology / Peter Beilharz -- Gendered hierarchies of knowledge and the prestige factor : how philosophy survives market rationality / Fiona Jenkins -- Part II: Markets, managers and mandarins. What's to be explained? and is it so Bad? / Geoffrey Brennan -- Higher education 'markets' and university governance / Tony Aspromourgos -- Transforming the public university : market citizenship and higher education regulatory projects / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- The state of the universities / Glenn Withers |
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Part III: Education for the 'real world'. The modern university and its transaction with students / Nigel Palmer -- Markets, discipline, students : governing student conduct and performance in the university / Bruce Lindsay -- 'Selling the dream': law school branding and the illusion of choice / Margaret Thornton and Lucinda Shannon -- Part IV: Conditions of knowledge production. Disciplining academic women : gender restructuring and the labour of research in entrepreneurial universities / Jill Blackmore -- Functional dystopia : diversity, contestability and new media in the academy / Jenny Corbett, Andrew MacIntyre and Inger Mewburn |
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Part V: Telling it how it is. A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change / Diane Kirkby and Kerreen Reiger -- 'Smoking guns': reflections on truth and politics in the university / Judith Bessant -- Part VI: University futures? Seeking the necessary 'resources of hope' in the neoliberal university / Jane Kenway, Rebecca Boden and Johannah Fahey |
| 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 |
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study |
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politics |
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social sciences |
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students |
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university |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-331) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Australia -- Evaluation
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Higher education and state -- Australia
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Australia
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Australia
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Educational change -- Australia
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Universities.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
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Education, Higher -- Evaluation
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Educational change
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Higher education and state
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose), editor.
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| LC no. |
2014481348 |
| ISBN |
9781925022148 |
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1925022145 |
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