Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (ix, 215 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics / Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan -- Reclaiming academic research work from regulation and relegation / Lisa Lucas -- The neo-conservative assault on the undergraduate curriculum / Steven Selden -- Higher education, globalization and the knowledge economy / Michael Peters -- Training the imagination to go visiting / Jean Barr and Morwenna Griffiths -- Sitting uneasily at the table / Judyth Sachs -- Learning the language of deliberative democracy / Jon Nixon -- Pedagogies of beginning / Melanie Walker -- The new media in an old institution: implementing the change/containing the potential for transformation / Rob Walker -- Under new management? A critical history of managerialism in British universities / Colin Bundy -- Beyond the impossibly good place: research and scholarship / Melanie Walker.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Examines the idea that the defining feature of academic professional identity is the search for understanding. This work shows how questions of teaching, research, and management in universities are also questions about the struggle over deliberative democracy. It details how higher education can contribute to building a prosperous society.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.