The Toxic University Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Smyth, John (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Θέματα: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Sociology of Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an i...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: 'Getting an Academic Life'
• Chapter 2. Neoliberalism: An Alien Interloper in Higher Education
• Chapter 3. Why the 'Toxic' University? A Case of Two Very Different Academics
• Chapter 4. Why Zombie Leadership?
• Chapter 5. Cultivation of the 'Rock Star' Academic Researcher?
• Chapter 6. The University as an Instrument of 'Class'
• Chapter 7. The 'Cancer Stage of Capitalism' in Universities
• Chapter 8. Enough is Enough... of this Failed Experiment of Killing the Host
• Chapter 9. Get Off My Bus! The Reversal of What We have been Doing in Universities.