Through a glass darkly : the social sciences look at the neoliberal university /

Through a glass darkly : the social sciences look at the neoliberal university / edited by Margaret Thornton.

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Online Access: Full Text (via JSTOR)
Other Authors: Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Australia > Evaluation.
Higher education and state > Australia.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > Australia.
Social sciences > Study and teaching (Higher) > Australia.
Educational change > Australia.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Retreat from the Critical / Margaret Thornton.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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