Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy : : Action Research in Higher Education /

Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy : : Action Research in Higher Education / / Davydd J. Greenwood, Morten Levin.

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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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Levin, Morten,
Greenwood, Davydd J.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (230 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • 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 Meanings 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 The Work Organization of Universities: Structures
  • Chapter 5 The 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 Public Universities
  • 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
  • Index

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