FUTURE OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION [electronic resource]

The Future of University Education; Series Editor's Preface; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: The Future of University Education; Legacy; Paideia; State of Play; Structure of the Book; Note; References; Part I Dissecting the Status Quo; 2 Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?; Freedom!; Neoliberalism and the University; Managing the Corporate University; The Game of Excellence; The Inheritance of Freedom; References; 3 The University of the Common: Beyond the Contradictions of Higher Education Subsumed under Capital; Introduction

The Common as a Concept and as a Perspective in Higher Education ResearchContradictions of the Contemporary Higher Education Systems; Classification of Contradictions of the Higher Education Systems; Apparent Contradiction (I): The Private and the Public; Apparent Contradiction (II): Academic Oligarchy and Capital; Real Contradiction (I): Corrupted Forms of the Common and the Common; Real Contradiction (II): The Common and Capital; The Future of the University: The University of the Common; Note; References

4 "The Last in the Food Chain": Dignity of Polish Junior Academics and Doctoral Candidates in the Face of Performance ManagementIntroduction; Dignity and Work; Dignity and the University; Performing Academics; Research Context: Polish Higher Education; Methodology; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Research Questions; Findings; Instead of Conclusions; Notes; References; 5 The Culture of Control in the Contemporary University; Introduction; Neoliberal University; Neoliberal Management Methods; Neoliberal Management of Universities; Criticism in Research on Neoliberalism

Culture under the Pressure of ChangeCulture of Academic Quality; Cultural Change Process; Discussion and Proposals of Change; Summary -- Critical Remarks on Control Culture; Note; References; Part II University in Context; 6 Living in a World of Foam: Global Ideas, Bubbles, Institutions and the Fairy Tale of Business Education; The Strange Case of the University as Institution and the Fairy Tale of Business Solutions; Conclusion: Looking for Another Fairy Tale; Notes; References; 7 The Future of the University? Social Activism among Young Polish Scholars; Introduction

Academic Initiatives and Social Movements in PolandCitizens of Academia -- the Research Project; The Citizens of Academia -- the Pilot Study; Conclusions; Notes; References; 8 University as a Terminal: Socio-Material Infrastructure for Post-Neoliberal Society; Notes; References; Part III Teaching and Research; 9 McLearning and the So-Called Knowledge Society: An Essay; Introduction; Du Temps Perdu; The Protean University: The First Thousand Years; McLearning: And the Illusion that Has Enabled It; Delivering McLearning; McLearning to Date: Not a Pretty Picture; Distance "learning"

Includes bibliographies and index.

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