Format:
xiii, 292 Seiten
,
22 cm
ISBN:
1137552115
,
9781137552112
Series Statement:
Palgrave critical university studies
Content:
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 academics and students - the voices that matter - the book reviews first hand experiences from different societies and university cultures located within the European and semi-Mediterranean landscape, including the Czech Republic, Morocco, Turkey, and United Kingdom
Content:
Editorial introduction -- Part I. Emerging culture: between neoliberal know-how and academic universals -- Beyond the third mission: toward an actor-based account of universities' relationship with society -- Searching for authenticity and success: academic identity and production in neoliberal times -- Turkish academics' encounters with the index in social sciences -- Part II. Stories of mediation, negotiation and resilience -- Variegated neoliberalization in higher education: ambivalent responses to competitive funding in the Czech Republic -- Creating jobs for the social good: moving beyond the neoliberal model of education for employment -- Transformation, reformation or decline? The university in contemporary Morocco and Turkey -- Part III. Voices of dissent -- The historico-political parameters of academic feminism in Turkey: breaks and continuities -- 'Homo academicus' in university inc.: the Ersatz yuppie academic
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137552129
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochschule
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Hochschulpolitik
;
Konferenzschrift
