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For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution de Prof. Thomas Docherty

For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution

Autor Prof. Thomas Docherty
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iun 2011
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles.The book considers the place of the university as an important global institution, now in a charged political and international public sphere. Docherty places current debates within their wider economic and political context, focusing on the relationship of the university to current and emerging models of democracy. The question of what the university will be -- rather than it is, was, or might be -- is at the heart of this book, and Docherty ably traces its history and present condition in order to offer us a vision for the future.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849666152
ISBN-10: 1849666156
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: None
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Commentators such as Stefan Collini have argued forcefully that current proposals to cut government funding for humanities and social science teaching fundamentally alter the nature of the university -- this is a book-length exploration of those themes

Notă biografică

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance to the present day. He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, 1986), Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).

Cuprins

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: for the University
Chapter 1: First Principles: The University of the Idea
Chapter 2: The Student Experience: Living Learning, Living Teaching
Chapter 3: A terrifying silence: Spaces of Research from Discovery to Surveillance
Chapter 4: Leadership: Legitimation and Authority
Chapter 5: Assessment: Controlling Conformity
Chapter 6: Finance: Money for Value
Appendix: post-Browne 2010

Recenzii

'Full marks to this book for topicality...There are many original ideas, many acute observations, many interesting connections...a thorough engagement with the topic.'
'a useful and telling indictment of much that is wrong with how universities are viewed and managed at present'
For the University makes a powerful and spirited case for the importance of university education in the UK and beyond. It deserves to be read, pondered and discussed on Canada's campuses to remind us of the broader social relevance of the university, and to warn us about some subtle, and not-so-subtle, trends that threaten higher education in this country.

Descriere

For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles.