The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change

ISBN-13: 9781786995414 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Raewyn Connell

Opis

Internationally respected sociologist and pioneering education reformer Raewyn Connell reveals the necessary steps to rectify the sector's crisis of sustainability

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Making the Knowledge: Research Being a researcher The work of research The knowledge formation Research and truth 2. Learning and Teaching The work of learning The course being run The work of teaching 3. The Collective Intellectual: University Workers Intellectuals Operations workers Academic workers Sustainability crisis 4. The Global Economy of Knowledge Imperial science Making a world university system Making a worldwide workforce Multiple knowledge formations and Southern theory 5. Privilege Machines The dark side of the university Making advantage happen Breaching the walls Machine limits 6. The University Business The maelstrom What enterprise universities sell The managers Telling lies about universities Maelstrom reconsidered 7. Universities of Hope Histories of invention Contemporaries Struggle and joy: lessons of experience 8. The Good University The choice of futures Criteria for a good university... ...and a good university system Manifestos and visions Taking action