Reclaiming universities from a runaway world / 
edited by Melanie Walker and Jon Nixon. 
 - ix, 215 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics /  Reclaiming academic research work from regulation and relegation /  The neo-conservative assault on the undergraduate curriculum /  Higher education, globalization and the knowledge economy /  Training the imagination to go visiting /  Sitting uneasily at the table /  Learning the language of deliberative democracy /  Pedagogies of beginning /  The new media in an old institution : implementing change, containing the potential for transformation /  Under new management? : a critical history of managerialism in British universities /  Beyond the impossibly good place : research and scholarship /  Epilogue : reclaiming universities from a runaway world /  Melanie Walker and Jon Nixon --  Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan --  Lisa Lucas --  Steven Selden --  Michael Peters --  Jean Barr and Morwenna Griffiths --  Judyth Sachs --  Jon Nixon --  Melanie Walker --  Rob Walker --  Colin Bundy --  Melanie Walker --  Ronald Barnett.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/> "This book offers a new vision for higher education. It is unique in bringing together critique with alternative ways of thinking about and practising higher education, providing theoretical and empirical grounding and focusing on international issues. With its international authorship, it provides insight for anyone interested in debates about the directions of higher education, including students, researchers, higher education managers and policy makers."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0335213871 9780335213870 0335212913 9780335212910 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education, Higher<br/>Universities and colleges
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB2322.2  / .R43 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>378