The University of Crisis

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1570-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

This book began as a collection of papers presented at a conference entitled ‘The Future Business of Higher Education’ held at Oxford University. The contributions range from those who grapple with the question of what a University should do, through those concerned with making Higher Education more efficient, to some who were already planning for some technologically inevitable virtual future. These disparate leanings led to inevitable conflict and a challenge in editing into book form. In compiling and editing the chapters the editor has tried to preserve some of the diversity of opinion presented at Oxford. By doing so it is apparent that some individual contributors would find unacceptable much of what others in the book have to say. The traditionalists clash with the modernizers, the Left with the Right, Public with Private and the theorists with the practitioners. It is this very divergence of philosophical opinion as to the future of Higher Education that makes this book such an enjoyable and stimulating read.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Preston, David Seth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations
PART I The Idea of the University
Bob MACKENZIE: The Decline of the Professor: The Impact of Higher Education Change on Academic Roles
Kenneth B. PETER: Weberian Collegiality and Academic Freedom in the Western University
David Seth PRESTON: Managerialism and the Post-Enlightenment Crisis of the British University
Robert GRANT: The End of Liberal Education
David JENKINS: Diced Carrots: The RAE Explained in the Light of Game Theory
PART II Macro Contemporary Issues of the University
George DIEHR and John R. MONTANARI: The Role of Private Sector Models in Higher Education: Back to the Future
Glynis COUSIN: “It’s the Way They Tell It…” The RAE Explained in the Light of Rhetorical Criticism
Len HOLMES: Reframing the Skills Agenda in Higher Education: Graduate Identity and the Double Warrant
PART III Micro Contemporary Issues of the University
Amanda RELPH: The Influence of Key Skills on Higher Education
Ann BARLOW: The Implications of Widening Participation Initiatives for Learning Support in Higher Education
Elizabeth MYTTON and Janet HANSON: W(h)ither the academic Law Teacher
Ann IRVING: The Investors in People Standard and UK Higher Education
Index
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Barlow is the Learning Support Coordinator at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Glynis Cousin is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Higher Education Development at Coventry University.

George Diehr received his PhD in Business Administration from UCLA in Management Science. He is currently Professor of Management Science at California State University, San Marcos, where he also served as interim dean.

Dr. Robert Grant is a Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. In 1999 he was Visiting Research Fellow in the Social Philosophy and Policy Centre, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Previously a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a lecturer at the University of Sussex, he has been at Glasgow for twenty-seven years.

Janet Hanson is Associate Head of Academic Services at Bournemouth University.

Len Holmes is Acting Director of the Management Research Centre at the University of North London.

Ann Irving worked for several large blue chip companies, mainly in research and development roles, before joining the University of Portsmouth in 1992. Ann is currently an Associate Dean in the Technology Faculty at Southampton Institute.

David Jenkins is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Higher Education Development.

Bob MacKenzie, at the time of writing this paper, was Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management at the University of Portsmouth. He is now an independent Development Consultant.

John R. (Dick) Montanari received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Management and Administrative Policy. He has served on the faculties of the University of Houston and Arizona State University. He is currently Professor of Strategic Management at California State University San Marcos.

Elizabeth Mytton is Director of the University Research Centre in Post-Compulsory Education and Head of Law in the School of Finance and Law at Bournemouth University.

Kenneth Peter is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Jose State University.

David Seth Preston has degrees from the universities of London, Loughborough and Sheffield. His background is in applied Information Systems especially within engineering firms.

Amanda Relph is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the Business School, University of Hertfordshire. She became interested in educational research whilst working on an aspect group in teaching, learning and assessment prior to a QAA visit at her previous university. She is currently undertaking an MA in Education (Lifelong Learning) with the Open University.