Creating a new public university and reviving democracy : action research in higher education / by Morten Levin and Davydd J. Greenwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Morten, author.

Greenwood, Davydd J., author.

Series:

Higher education in critical perspective: practices and policies ; volume 2.

Higher education in critical perspective: practices and policies ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Democracy and education.

Action research in education.

Physical Description:

vi, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2016.

Summary:

Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be democratically organized to perform their educational and societal functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Public Goods, Bildung, Public Universities, and Democracy 19

Chapter 1 Public Goods, Democracy, and Public Universities 21

Chapter 2 Multiple Models and Meanings of Higher Education 37

Chapter 3 Bildung, Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity, and Democracy 57

Part II Universities as Work Organizations: Stakeholders, Structures, Systems, Steering, Leadership and Anti-Bildung 77

Chapter 4 The Work Organization of Universities: Structures 79

Chapter 5 The Work Organization of Universities: Systemic Analysis 93

Chapter 6 Processes in the Work Organization of Universities: Socio-Technical Systems Design, Networking for Power, and Neo-Taylorism 111

Chapter 7 Leadership and Steering in Public Universities 135

Part III The Road Forward: Action Research for Neue-Bildung in Higher Education 151

Chapter 8 Action Research as a Strategy for Organizational Change 153

Chapter 9 Practicing Action Research in Public Universities 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785333217

1785333216

OCLC:

958497984