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37 produkter
Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education
Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management
Av Suman Gupta, Jernej Habjan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1062 kr
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This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher educationand research work that are underway today havenot only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually beproducing unemployment both for those within academia and forgraduate job-seekers in other sectors. …
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity
Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2016
1489 kr
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Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars …
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity
Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Häftad, 2016
1489 kr
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Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars …
Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
Av Rob Watts
Inbunden, 2017
1277 kr
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This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which …
Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education
Inbunden, 2016
906 kr
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The future of higher education is in question as universities struggle to remain relevant to the present and future needs of society. The context in which learning occurs is rapidly changing and those engaged and interested in the place and position of university education need to figure out to …
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
Inbunden, 2016
536 kr
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The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its …
Universities in the Neoliberal Era
Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2017
1171 kr
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This book explores the question of how and to what extent the ongoing neoliberal transformation of higher education exerts influence on the university and academic everyday life in different societies. By listening to, observing, and comparing the critical voices of academics and students – the …
Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual
Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2016
536 kr
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This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and …
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
Häftad, 2017
536 kr
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The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its …
Toxic University
Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology
Av John Smyth
Häftad, 2018
458 kr
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This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an …
Reclaiming the University for the Public Good
Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education
Inbunden, 2020
1484 kr
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This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union strikes in April 2018. In …
Reclaiming the University for the Public Good
Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education
Häftad, 2021
1484 kr
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This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union strikes in April 2018. In …
Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism
Creating Compassionate Campuses
Inbunden, 2021
1696 kr
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This book examines the role of compassion in refiguring the university. Plotting a reimagining of the university through care, other-regard, and a commitment to act in response to the suffering of others, the author draws on various humanities disciplines to illuminate the potential of compassion …
Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism
Creating Compassionate Campuses
Häftad, 2022
1696 kr
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This book examines the role of compassion in refiguring the university. Plotting a reimagining of the university through care, other-regard, and a commitment to act in response to the suffering of others, the author draws on various humanities disciplines to illuminate the potential of compassion …
Academic Freedom in the European Context
Legal, Philosophical and Institutional Perspectives
Av Ivo De Gennaro, Hannes Hofmeister m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1590 kr
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This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors and contributors analyse the concept of academic freedom within the present institutional setting. Academic freedom has long been considered a natural …
Academic Freedom in the European Context
Legal, Philosophical and Institutional Perspectives
Av Ivo De Gennaro, Hannes Hofmeister m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1590 kr
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This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors and contributors analyse the concept of academic freedom within the present institutional setting. Academic freedom has long been considered a natural …
Universities Under Fire
Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education
Av Steven Jones
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about …
Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19
Av Marina Vujnovic, Johanna E. Foster
Inbunden, 2022
1484 kr
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This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda …
Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19
Av Marina Vujnovic, Johanna E. Foster
Häftad, 2023
1484 kr
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This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda …
Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-ability
Higher Education, Coloniality and Ecological Damage
Av Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas
Inbunden, 2023
482 kr
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This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, …
Transformation of Academic Work
Fractured Futures?
Av James Goodman, Claire Parfitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1273 kr
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This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work. It charts international and Australia-based efforts to overcome academic fragmentation and precarity, and to advance agendas for the public university. It is based on extensive qualitative interviews …
Transformation of Academic Work
Fractured Futures?
Av James Goodman, Claire Parfitt m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1273 kr
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This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work. It charts international and Australia-based efforts to overcome academic fragmentation and precarity, and to advance agendas for the public university. It is based on extensive qualitative interviews …
Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education
Av Sally Macarthur, Julja Szuster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1797 kr
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This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context. As a subject that bears little resemblance to other university practical disciplines, and fares poorly in a model driven by economics, the book considers whether …
Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education
Av Sally Macarthur, Julja Szuster m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
1797 kr
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This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context. As a subject that bears little resemblance to other university practical disciplines, and fares poorly in a model driven by economics, the book considers whether …
Public University as a Real Utopia
Towards a Renewal of Higher Education
Inbunden, 2024
1484 kr
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This book theorises the public university as a real utopia, drawing upon the work of the American sociologist Erik Olin Wright. The book explores institutional democracy, academic freedom and the curriculum as the real utopian 'constituents' of the public university. In doing so, the author puts …
Public University as a Real Utopia
Towards a Renewal of Higher Education
Häftad, 2025
1484 kr
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This book theorises the public university as a real utopia, drawing upon the work of the American sociologist Erik Olin Wright. The book explores institutional democracy, academic freedom and the curriculum as the real utopian 'constituents' of the public university. In doing so, the author puts …
Future University in Central and Eastern Europe
Building and Dismantling the Ivory Pyramid
Inbunden, 2026
1914 kr
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This edited volume introduces a fresh approach to higher education that redefines traditional paradigms. It explores pressing concerns about the future of universities and education, addressing key issues such as transformative shifts stemming from an increased emphasis on vocational and …
Civic Value of the Humanities
A Case for Compassion
Inbunden, 2025
388 kr
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This book makes a consciously positive case for the civic value of the humanities in higher education. The author seeks to show the ways in which humanities subjects are not just about teaching and learning to master technical content, but are also concerned with the transmission of ethical …
Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Towards a Socially Just Pedagogy in a Global Context
Av Ruksana Osman, David J Hornsby
Inbunden, 2017
1379 kr
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Universities face the prospect of becoming redundant unless the way teaching and learning takes place changes. This book explores the idea of transformation and pedagogy, In particular, it will highlight how universities are transformed through a set of pedagogical interventions and stances that …
Future of University Education
Av Michał Izak, Monika Kostera m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1062 kr
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This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the …
