Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market The Breakdown of Scientific Thought /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rider, Sharon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hasselberg, Ylva (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Waluszewski, Alexandra (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Higher Education Dynamics, 39
• Θέματα: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Economic policy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Economic Policy.

This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• Part one: POLITICS AND POLICY
• 2. Power – knowledge – morals: Society in the age of hybrid research
• 3. Innovation and control: Performative research policy in Sweden
• 4. The scientific mission and the freedom of research
• Part two: ECONOMIC MODELS
• 5. Contemporary research and innovation policy: A double disservice?
• 6. The foundations of knowledge according to The knowledge foundation
• 7. Science policy in a socially embedded economy
• Part three: RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
• 8. Down the slippery-slope: The perils of the academic research industry
• 9. In defence of discretion
• 10. Publish and perish: A note on a collapsing academic authorship
• Part four: HIGHER EDUCATION
• 11. Methodomania
• 12. Higher heteronomy: Thinking through modern university education
• 13. The academic contract: From “simply a metaphor” to technology
• 14. Conclusion – On the verge of breakdown
• References
• Index.