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

• Main Author: Smyth, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.