Social theory and the politics of higher education critical perspectives on institutional research
"Bringing together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education, the book explores three key areas - institutional governance, academic work and student experience through a theoretical lens, using the ideas of Michel Fou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Academic
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Social theory and methodology in education research
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| Collection: | Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction : theorising the university in an age of uncertainty / Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa and Rille Raaper
- Social theory and academic governance / Mark Murphy
- University management as court society : a processual analysis of the rise of university management / Eric Lybeck
- Tales from the matrix : student satisfaction as a form of governmentality / Stephen Day and Anne Pirrie
- The performativity of performance indicators : the case of Chilean higher education / Tomás Koch and Julio Labraña
- The politics of academic life : professional identities and intellectual selves in neo-liberal times / Cristina Costa
- The experimental rhythms of academic work / Fabian Cannizzo
- Exploring academic identities in the neoliberal university / David Hodgson and Lynelle Watt
- Gender and the university : stories so far and spaces between / Kate Carruthers Thomas
- Epistemonormativity : epistemic injustices and feminist academic caringzenship / Luísa Winter Pereira
- Governing the 'good' casual academic : institutionalised 'othering' practices / Alexandra Jones, Jess Harris, Nerida Spina and Jen Azordagen
- Student politics : resistance, refusal and representation / Rille Raaper and Ciaran Burke
- Habermas and Foucault : understanding hostility to higher education and graduate debt / Cedomir Vuckovic
- An irreconcilable divide? : tensions between private and public higher education systems in Peru / Diego A. Salazar-Morales
- Theorising student and graduate identities using figured worlds / Fiona Christie and James Rattenbury