Raewyn Connell

Good University

What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781786995414
• ISBN-10: 1786995417
• Artikelnr.: 54410604

Autorenporträt

Raewyn Connell

Inhaltsangabe

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