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.
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 331 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-331).
Introduction : The Retreat from the Critical / Margaret Thornton. 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 / 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 / Hannah Forsyth -- Peter Beilharz -- Fiona Jenkins -- Geoffrey Brennan -- Tony Aspromourgos -- Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Glenn Withers. Part I: Theorising the modern university. Part II: Markets, managers and mandarins. 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 / Disciplining academic women : gender restructuring and the labour of research in entrepreneurial universities / Functional dystopia : diversity, contestability and new media in the academy / Nigel Palmer -- Bruce Lindsay -- Margaret Thornton and Lucinda Shannon -- Jill Blackmore -- Jenny Corbett, Andrew MacIntyre and Inger Mewburn. Part III: Education for the 'real world'. Part IV: Conditions of knowledge production. 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 / Seeking the necessary 'resources of hope' in the neoliberal university / Diane Kirkby and Kerreen Reiger -- Judith Bessant -- Jane Kenway, Rebecca Boden and Johannah Fahey. Part V: Telling it how it is. Part VI: University futures?
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.
English.
9781925022148 1925022145
10.26530/OAPEN_515938 doi
22573/ctt1355hd5 JSTOR
2014481348
Education, Higher--Evaluation.--Australia
Higher education and state--Australia.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Australia.
Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--Australia.
Educational change--Australia.
Universities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects.
Education, Higher--Evaluation.
Educational change.
Higher education and state.
Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)
Australia.
study. politics. social sciences. students. university.
Electronic books.
LA2108 / .T49 2014
378.94
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-331).
Introduction : The Retreat from the Critical / Margaret Thornton. 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 / 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 / Hannah Forsyth -- Peter Beilharz -- Fiona Jenkins -- Geoffrey Brennan -- Tony Aspromourgos -- Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Glenn Withers. Part I: Theorising the modern university. Part II: Markets, managers and mandarins. 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 / Disciplining academic women : gender restructuring and the labour of research in entrepreneurial universities / Functional dystopia : diversity, contestability and new media in the academy / Nigel Palmer -- Bruce Lindsay -- Margaret Thornton and Lucinda Shannon -- Jill Blackmore -- Jenny Corbett, Andrew MacIntyre and Inger Mewburn. Part III: Education for the 'real world'. Part IV: Conditions of knowledge production. 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 / Seeking the necessary 'resources of hope' in the neoliberal university / Diane Kirkby and Kerreen Reiger -- Judith Bessant -- Jane Kenway, Rebecca Boden and Johannah Fahey. Part V: Telling it how it is. Part VI: University futures?
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.
English.
9781925022148 1925022145
10.26530/OAPEN_515938 doi
22573/ctt1355hd5 JSTOR
2014481348
Education, Higher--Evaluation.--Australia
Higher education and state--Australia.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Australia.
Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--Australia.
Educational change--Australia.
Universities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects.
Education, Higher--Evaluation.
Educational change.
Higher education and state.
Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)
Australia.
study. politics. social sciences. students. university.
Electronic books.
LA2108 / .T49 2014
378.94