The Future of University Education
Editors: Izak, Michał, Kostera, Monika, Zawadzki, Michał (Eds.)
- Gives a range of perspectives, from academics to entrepreneurs, on the future of university education
- Critically considers the effects of marketization on higher education
- Identifies spaces for realistic options that reflect values alternative to those in the neoliberal university
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- About this book
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This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university every year, there is a strong resistance to the notion that the university as a collegial and critical institution is dead, among academics as well as the broader public. With contributions from scholars across the world, this edited collection explores the ramifications of marketization on universities, and provides glimpses of what higher education will look like in the future. It will be of great interest to teachers and students in higher education, as well as policy makers and those interested in the current and future state of higher education.
- About the authors
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Michal Izak is Senior Lecturer in Management at University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests include emerging organizational discourses, Critical Management Studies and organizational storytelling.
Monika Kostera is Professor Ordinaria and Chair of Management at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Professor and Chair in Management at Durham University, UK. She has authored and edited books in Polish and English, including Management in a Liquid Modern World with Zygmunt Bauman, Irena Bauman and Jerzy Kociatkiewicz (Polity).
Michał Zawadzki works at the Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. He has published widely within the area of humanistic management, especially critical management studies. He is a Visby Program scholar at the Gothenburg Research Institut, Sweden.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Future of University Education
- Editors
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- Michał Izak
- Monika Kostera
- Michał Zawadzki
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-46894-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-46893-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics