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Serie: Palgrave critical university studies
gebondenEngels9781137493231
17-6-2016
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 for
graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Meer
gebondenEngels9781137547606
29-2-2016
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 university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality. Meer
gebondenEngels9781137535986
2-1-2017
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 transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. Meer
paperbackEngels9781349714476
21-12-2017
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 university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality. Meer
paperbackEngels9781349958337
17-7-2018
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9783319468938
5-5-2017
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 under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Meer
paperbackEngels9783030733735
6-6-2022
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 the potential of compassion in the campus. Meer
paperbackEngels9783030961060
28-6-2022
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 institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. Meer
paperbackEngels9783030869335
14-2-2023
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9783031410338
20-9-2023
This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work. It charts international and Australia-based efforts to overcome academic fragmentation and precarity, and to advance agendas for the public university. Meer
gebondenEngels9783031123696
10-11-2022
This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda consistent with the principles of disaster capitalism. Meer
paperbackEngels9783031123726
11-11-2023
This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda consistent with the principles of disaster capitalism. Meer
gebondenEngels9783030869304
13-2-2022
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9783030733704
5-6-2021
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 the potential of compassion in the campus. Meer
gebondenEngels9783031349959
24-7-2023
This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and the climate crisis. Meer
gebondenEngels9783030216245
2-1-2020
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 strikes in April 2018. Meer
paperbackEngels9783030216276
26-8-2021
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 strikes in April 2018. Meer
paperbackEngels9783319834603
2-8-2018
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 interventions and stances that integrate a sense of moral and ethical purpose to learning. Meer
gebondenEngels9783319957227
29-8-2018
This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of non-academic research impact in relation to a marginal field of study, namely tourism studies. Meer
gebondenEngels9783319958330
3-1-2019
This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. Meer