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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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
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.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects
Education, Higher > Evaluation
Educational change
Higher education and state
Social sciences > Study and teaching (Higher)
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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