Télécharger le livre :  Universities Under Fire

This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-27
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Freedom in the European Context

This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors and contributors analyse the concept of academic freedom within the present institutional setting. Academic freedom has...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-02-12
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism

This book examines the role of compassion in refiguring the university. Plotting a reimagining of the university through care, other-regard, and a commitment to act in response to the suffering of others, the author draws on various humanities disciplines to illuminate...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-06-04
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Reclaiming the University for the Public Good

This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-12-11
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Toxic University

This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-23
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Universities face the prospect of becoming redundant unless the way teaching and learning takes place changes. This book explores the idea of transformation and pedagogy, In particular, it will highlight how universities are transformed through a set of pedagogical...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-09
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of University Education

This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-26
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Universities in the Neoliberal Era

This book explores the question of how and to what extent the ongoing neoliberal transformation of higher education exerts influence on the university and academic everyday life in different societies. By listening to, observing, and comparing the critical voices of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-04
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction

This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-15
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-19
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education

This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-05-27
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-08
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity

Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-05
Collection : Palgrave Critical University Studies
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