The Future of University Education

The Future of University Education edited by Michał Izak, Monika Kostera, Michał 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 under the influence of the shor...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Izak, Michał (Editor), Kostera, Monika (Editor), Zawadzki, Michał (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Critical University Studies,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Educational sociology.
Higher education.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Dissecting the Status Quo
  • Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?; Carl Rhodes
  • The University of the Common: Beyond the Contradictions of Higher Education Subsumed under Capital; Krystian Szadkowski
  • ‘The Last in the Food Chain’: Dignity of Polish Junior Academics and Doctoral Candidates in the Face of Performance Management; Michał Zawadzki
  • The Culture of Control in the Contemporary University; Łukasz Sułkowski
  • PART II. University in Context
  • Living in a World of Foam: Global Ideas, Bubbles, Institutions and the Fairy Tale of Business Education; Carmelo Mazza & Paolo Quattrone
  • The Future of the University? The Voice of Young Polish Scholars; Anna M. Kola & Krzysztof Leja
  • University as a Terminal: Socio-Material Infrastructure for Post-Neoliberal Society; Krzysztof Nawratek
  • PART III. Teaching and Research
  • McLearning and the So-Called “Knowledge Society”: An Essay; Roy Jacques
  • Neoliberalism’s War against Higher Education and the Role of Public Intellectuals; Henry A. Giroux
  • Re-imagining Business Schools of the Future as Places of Theorizing; Hugo Gaggiotti, Peter Simpson & Svetlana Cicmil
  • Re-integrating the Professional Learner: The Complementarity of Teaching and Research in Academic Life; David Sims
  • PART IV. Into the Future
  • Escape from the Neoliberal Higher Education Prison: A Proposal for a New Digital Communist University; Roger Hallam
  • A Curious and Collaborative Future; Todd Hannula
  • Speculations on University Futures in 2025: Corporate Cloning, Intellectual Underground, and a New Critical Awareness; George Cairns
  • 2021: A Campus Odyssey; Monika Kostera
  • Anti-Coda.-.

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