Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

Action Research in Higher Education
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-839-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Morten

Greenwood, Davydd J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of figures

Introduction: Democracy and Public Universities

PART I: PUBLIC GOODS, BILDUNG, PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter 1. Public Goods, Democracy, and Public Universities

Chapter 2. Multiple Models and Ideologies of Higher Education

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

PART II: UNIVERSITIES AS WORK ORGANIZATIONS: STAKEHOLDERS, STRUCTURES, SYSTEMS, STEERING, LEADERSHIP, AND ANTI-BILDUNG

Chapter 4. Work Organization of Universities: Structures

Chapter 5. Work Organization of Universities: Systemic Analysis

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

Chapter 7. Leadership and Steering in Public Universities

PART III: THE ROAD FORWARD: ACTION RESEARCH FOR NEUE-BILDUNG IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Chapter 8. Action Research as a Strategy for Organizational Change

Chapter 9. Practicing Action Research in Public Universities

Conclusion: What Difference Could Action Research in Public Universities Make?

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Levin, Morten
Morten Levin is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. With degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Sociology, he has worked as an action researcher on processes and structures of social change.

Greenwood, Davydd J.
Davydd J. Greenwood is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Cornell University. A Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1996, he served as the John S. Knight Professor and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and as Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell.

Morten Levin is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. With degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Sociology, he has worked as an action researcher on processes and structures of social change.