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Universities Under Fire
Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education
Taschenbuch von Steven Jones
Sprache: Englisch

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This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured culture wars. Within this context, integrity deficits soon arose: universities bragged about diversity and social responsibility without commensurate action; global ambitions went unmatched by local accountability; senior management grew more distant and self-rewarding as contractual precarity increased for frontline staff. Jones does not call for a return to any golden age of academic self-rule. Rather, he warns that without self-assured new stories, firmly underpinned by more transparent and moral forms of governance, universities risk further compromising their standing as trusted public institutions at the very moment they are needed most.
This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured culture wars. Within this context, integrity deficits soon arose: universities bragged about diversity and social responsibility without commensurate action; global ambitions went unmatched by local accountability; senior management grew more distant and self-rewarding as contractual precarity increased for frontline staff. Jones does not call for a return to any golden age of academic self-rule. Rather, he warns that without self-assured new stories, firmly underpinned by more transparent and moral forms of governance, universities risk further compromising their standing as trusted public institutions at the very moment they are needed most.
Über den Autor

Steven Jones is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Manchester, UK, and currently head of Manchester Institute of Education. His academic background is in English Linguistics, and he brings the tools of critical discourse analysis to the university sector. He has written op-ed pieces for The Guardian and presented research evidence to policy-makers and government ministers.

Zusammenfassung

Combines discourse analysis with a deep knowledge of the education system

Imagines the future of universities if current destablising discourses continue

Conceptualises 'inauthenticity' in a unique way

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Higher education: a sector unloved.- How university staff are talked about.- How university funding is talked about.- How university students are talked about.- How free speech is talked about.- New stories for an old sector?.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Erwachsenenbildung
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 296
Reihe: Palgrave Critical University Studies
Inhalt: xxix
264 S.
1 s/w Illustr.
264 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783030961060
ISBN-10: 3030961060
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Steven
Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Palgrave Critical University Studies
Maße: 210 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Steven Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
preigu-id: 120995258
Über den Autor

Steven Jones is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Manchester, UK, and currently head of Manchester Institute of Education. His academic background is in English Linguistics, and he brings the tools of critical discourse analysis to the university sector. He has written op-ed pieces for The Guardian and presented research evidence to policy-makers and government ministers.

Zusammenfassung

Combines discourse analysis with a deep knowledge of the education system

Imagines the future of universities if current destablising discourses continue

Conceptualises 'inauthenticity' in a unique way

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Higher education: a sector unloved.- How university staff are talked about.- How university funding is talked about.- How university students are talked about.- How free speech is talked about.- New stories for an old sector?.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Erwachsenenbildung
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 296
Reihe: Palgrave Critical University Studies
Inhalt: xxix
264 S.
1 s/w Illustr.
264 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783030961060
ISBN-10: 3030961060
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Steven
Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Palgrave Critical University Studies
Maße: 210 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Steven Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
preigu-id: 120995258
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