For the university [electronic resource] / democracy and the future of the institution / Thomas Docherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Docherty, Thomas, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 198 p.)

Other Title:

For the university

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.

Summary:

'For the University' is a book both about and for the university in the age of mass and globalized education. It analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles. For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles. The book considers the place of the university as an important global institution, now in a charged political and international public sphere. Docherty places current debates within their wider economic and political context, focusing on the relationship of the university to current and emerging models of democracy. The question of what the university will be -- rather than it is, was, or might be -- is at the heart of this book, and Docherty ably traces its history and present condition in order to offer us a vision for the future.

Contents:

Table of Contents Preface Introduction: for the University Chapter 1: First Principles: The University of the Idea Chapter 2: The Student Experience: Living Learning, Living Teaching Chapter 3: A terrifying silence: Spaces of Research from Discovery to Surveillance Chapter 4: Leadership: Legitimation and Authority Chapter 5: Assessment: Controlling Conformity Chapter 6: Finance: Money for Value Appendix: post-Browne 2010

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-84966-631-8