Overview

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

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Author:   Margaret Thornton
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
ISBN:  

9781925022131

ISBN 10:   1925022137
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Theorising the Modern University Disinterested Scholars or Interested Parties? The Public's Investment in Self-interested Universities Critical Theory and the New University: Reflections on Time and Technology Gendered Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Prestige Factor: How Philosophy Survives Market Rationality Part II: Markets, Managers and Mandarins What's to be Explained? And is it so Bad? Higher Education 'Markets' and University Governance Transforming the Public University: Market Citizenship and Higher Education Regulatory Projects The State of the Universities Part III: Education for the 'Real World' The Modern University and its Transaction with Students Markets, Discipline, Students: Governing Student Conduct and Performance in the University 'Selling the dream': Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice Part IV: Conditions of Knowledge Production Disciplining Academic Women: Gender Restructuring and the Labour of Research in Entrepreneurial Universities Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy Part V: Telling It How It Is A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change 'Smoking Guns': Reflections on Truth and Politics in the University Part VI: University Futures? Seeking the Necessary 'Resources of Hope' in the Neoliberal University

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