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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 331 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022148
  • 1925022145
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Through a glass darklyDDC classification:
  • 378.94 23
LOC classification:
  • LA2108 .T49 2014
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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880-01 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-331).

Print version record.

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.

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