Re-positioning university governance and academic work / / edited by Jill Blackmore, Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin.

• Superior document: Educational Futures ; Volume 41
• TeilnehmendeR: Zipin, Lew,; Brennan, Marie,; Blackmore, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Educational futures ; Volume 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book examines changing ways that academic work is governed—from outside and inside universities—in the shifting social, cultural and political contexts of new times. Chapters trace developments in institutions, national sectors, and internationally—all applying a global scope to identify significant shifts in the broader conditions of university operation. Attention is given to governance processes across all key domains of academic work: teaching, research, leadership, management and institutional organisation. Key trends are analysed, including risk management, audit culture, league tables, techniques of accountability, and more. These investigations bring forth re-conceptions of university ‘governance’ as involving increasingly distributed and networked arrays of mechanisms, affecting academic work practices, relations, values, emotional labours and identities. Ambiguities, tensions and complexities of academic work are explored; and questions are raised as to whether prevailing managerial modes of governance can address these features of university engagement with globalising contexts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jill Blackmore , Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin -- Repositioning University Governance and Academic Work: An Overview / Jill Blackmore , Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin -- How Universities have Been Positioned as Teams in a Knowledge Economy World Cup / Simon Marginson -- The ‘Singapore Sling’: When World Class Universities Come to Town / Ravinder Sidhu -- The Knowledge Economy and Research Governance: How we got to Where we are Now / Elizabeth Bullen , Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey -- Research Assessment: A Calculative Technology Governing Quality, Accountability and Equity / Jill Blackmore -- Toward a New Survivalism? Neo-Liberal Government of Graduate Education in Ontario / Kari Dehli -- Teaching as Performance / Alison Lee and Catherine Manathunga -- Dividing the University: Perspectives from the Middle / Marie Brennan -- Through a Love of What Neoliberalism Puts at Risk / Peter Bansel and Bronwyn Davies -- Situating University Governance in the Ethico-Emotive Ground Tone of Post/Late Times / Lew Zipin -- Notes on Contributors / Jill Blackmore , Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin.