Reclaiming universities from a runaway world / edited by Melanie Walker and Jon Nixon.
"This book offers a new vision for higher education. It is unique in bringing together critique with alternative ways of thinking about and practising higher education, providing theoretical and empirical grounding and focusing on international issues. With its international authorship, it prov...
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[London?] : Maidenhead, Berkshire ; New York :
Society for Research into Higher Education ; Open University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Melanie Walker and Jon Nixon
- 1. Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics / Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan
- 2. Reclaiming academic research work from regulation and relegation / Lisa Lucas
- 3. The neo-conservative assault on the undergraduate curriculum / Steven Selden
- 4. Higher education, globalization and the knowledge economy / Michael Peters
- 5. Training the imagination to go visiting / Jean Barr and Morwenna Griffiths
- 6. Sitting uneasily at the table / Judyth Sachs
- 7. Learning the language of deliberative democracy / Jon Nixon
- 8. Pedagogies of beginning / Melanie Walker
- 9. The new media in an old institution : implementing change, containing the potential for transformation / Rob Walker
- 10. Under new management? : a critical history of managerialism in British universities / Colin Bundy
- 11. Beyond the impossibly good place : research and scholarship / Melanie Walker
- Epilogue : reclaiming universities from a runaway world / Ronald Barnett.