Tous les ebooks de la collection "Palgrave Critical University Studies" - Palgrave Macmillan


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Télécharger le livre :  The Transformation of Academic Work
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The Transformation of Academic Work


James Goodman , Claire Parfitt , Keiko Yasukawa


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. It is based on...

Parution : 2023-09-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Responsibility, privileged irresponsibility and response-ability
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Responsibility, privileged irresponsibility and response-ability


Vivienne Bozalek , Michalinos Zembylas


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...

Parution : 2023-07-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19
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Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19


Johanna E. Foster , Marina Vujnovic


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...

Parution : 2022-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Universities Under Fire
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Universities Under Fire


Steven Jones


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...

Parution : 2022-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Freedom in the European Context
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Academic Freedom in the European Context


Ivo De Gennaro , Hannes Hofmeister , Ralf Lüfter


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...

Parution : 2022-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism
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Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism


Louise J. Lawrence


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...

Parution : 2021-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Reclaiming the University for the Public Good
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Reclaiming the University for the Public Good


Malcolm Noble , Cilla Ross


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...

Parution : 2019-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume I
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Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume I


Dorothy Bottrell , Catherine Manathunga


In light of the overwhelming presence of neoliberalism within academia, this book examines how academics resist and manage these changes. The first of two volumes, this diptych of critical academic work investigates generative spaces, or ‘cracks’ in neoliberal...

Parution : 2018-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II
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Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II


Dorothy Bottrell , Catherine Manathunga


This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. The second volume in a diptych of critical academic work on the changing landscape of neoliberal universities,...

Parution : 2018-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Toxic University
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The Toxic University


John Smyth


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...

Parution : 2017-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
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Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education


David J Hornsby , Ruksana Osman


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...

Parution : 2017-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of University Education
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The Future of University Education


Michal Izak , Monika Kostera , Michal Zawadzki


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...

Parution : 2017-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Universities in the Neoliberal Era
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Universities in the Neoliberal Era


Simten Cosar , Hakan Ergül


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...

Parution : 2017-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction
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Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction


Neil Cocks


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...

Parution : 2017-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education


Rob Watts


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...

Parution : 2016-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education
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Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education


Suman Gupta , Jernej Habjan , Hrvoje Tutek


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...

Parution : 2016-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
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Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality


Michael O'sullivan


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...

Parution : 2016-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity
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Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity


Joanna Williams


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...

Parution : 2016-01-05
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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