书目名称 | Universities Under Fire |
副标题 | Hostile Discourses a |
编辑 | Steven Jones |
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概述 | Combines discourse analysis with a deep knowledge of the education system.Imagines the future of universities if current destablising discourses continue.Conceptualises ‘inauthenticity’ in a unique wa |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Critical University Studies |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .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. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by .hostile discourses., with purportedly .woke. universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured .culture wars.. Within this context, .integrity deficits. soon arose: universities bragged about diversity and social responsibility without commensurate action; global ambitions went unmatched by local accountability; senior management grew more distant and self-rewarding as contractual precarity increased for frontline staff. Jones does not call for a return to any .golden age. of academic self-rule. Rather, he warns that without self-assured new stories, firmly underpinned by more transparent and moral forms of governance, universities ris |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | Higher education; neoliberalism; marketisation; discourse analysis; educational policy |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-96106-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-96107-7Series ISSN 2662-7329 Series E-ISSN 2662-7337 |
issn_series | 2662-7329 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |