Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective

• Main Authors: Wright, Susan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Carney, Stephen (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Krejsler, John Benedicto (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Nielsen, Gritt Bykærholm (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Williams Ørberg, Jakob (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Higher Education Dynamics, 53
• Subjects: Higher education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; International education .; Comparative education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe's most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective. It incorporates voices positioned across university and policy-making hierarchies in its analysis of how Danish universities ha...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Introduction and Approach
• 1. Introduction: An Ethnography of University Reform; Susan Wright
• 2. Enactment of the University - Issues and Concepts; Susan Wright
• Part II Imagining and Enacting a Reformed University
• 3. University Reform: International Policy Making through a Danish Prism; Susan Wright
• 4. Contested Narratives of University Reform; Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg
• 5. Steering Change - Negotiations of Autonomy and Accountability in the Self-owning University; Jakob Williams Ørberg and Susan Wright
• Part III University Governance and Management
• 6. Governing the Post-Bureaucratic University; Stephen Carney
• 7. Leading the Post-Bureaucratic University; Stephen Carney
• Part IV Academics' Strategic Space for Manoeuvre
• 8. Changing University Discourses, Changing Spaces for Academics - Reconfiguring External Conditions for Being an Academic Subject; John Benedicto Krejsler
• 9. Academic Subjectivities at Stake - Different University Contexts, Different Responses to Reform; John Benedicto Krejsler
• Part V Enactment of Students
• 10. Capitalism, Political Participation and the Student as a Revolutionary Figure; Gritt B. Nielsen
• 11. Students at the Centre - as Co-owners, Consumers, Investors?; Gritt B. Nielsen
• Part VI Conclusion
• 12. Conclusion: Enactment and Transformation of the University; Susan Wright.