TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Melanie
AU  - Nixon,Jon
ED  - Society for Research into Higher Education.
TI  - Reclaiming universities from a runaway world
SN  - 0335213871
AV  - LB2322.2 .R43 2004
U1  - 378 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - [London?], Maidenhead, Berkshire, New York
PB  - Society for Research into Higher Education, Open University Press
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Universities and colleges
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Melanie Walker and Jon Nixon --; 1; Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics; Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan --; 2; Reclaiming academic research work from regulation and relegation; Lisa Lucas --; 3; The neo-conservative assault on the undergraduate curriculum; Steven Selden --; 4; Higher education, globalization and the knowledge economy; Michael Peters --; 5; Training the imagination to go visiting; Jean Barr and Morwenna Griffiths --; 6; Sitting uneasily at the table; Judyth Sachs --; 7; Learning the language of deliberative democracy; Jon Nixon --; 8; Pedagogies of beginning; Melanie Walker --; 9; The new media in an old institution : implementing change, containing the potential for transformation; Rob Walker --; 10; Under new management? : a critical history of managerialism in British universities; Colin Bundy --; 11; Beyond the impossibly good place : research and scholarship; Melanie Walker --; Epilogue : reclaiming universities from a runaway world; Ronald Barnett
N2  - "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
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