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The Virtual University?
Knowledge, Markets, and Management
Edited by Kevin Robins and Frank Webster
342 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925793-5
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Paperback
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07 November 2002
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- Situates the debate about the future and function of the university in the mainstream of contemporary social analysis
- Features research from major social analysts in both the US and the UK
- Goes beyond technology-centred and education policy-focused approaches
- Analyses changes in higher education within the broad contexts of globalization, the political economy, and historical trends
- Essential reading for those seeking to understand changes in higher education
The Virtual University? brings together some of the best-known writers on contemporary social change to reflect on the radical transformations going on in higher education.
Expansion, technology, and changing financial and performance structures have altered universities, affecting the way they are managed, their relations with the corporate world, their employees, and their users/customers/students. Has a culture of collegiality been replaced by one of managerialism? Has the liberal/national university been replaced by the global/virtual one? What changes does the digital world bring to the practice and experience of
education?
The book refuses to adopt a narrow focus towards its subject, rejecting technology-centred and education policy-focused approaches. Arguing for a need to situate changes in higher education in the broad contexts of globalization, the political economy, and historical trends, the book combines close attention to the complexities of on-the-ground changes in higher education with sensitivity towards the most consequential contextual pressures.
The book lifts consideration of higher education into the mainstream of social transformations in the twenty-first century, arguing that a wide debate about changes in knowledge, markets, and management is demanded since the 'virtual university' concerns the character of intellectual culture
itself.Readership: Professional: Educational policymakers, planners, adminstrators, academics; Academics: Scholars and graduate students in sociology, management, media and communication studies, education, social policy, and information and communication technology.
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Edited by Kevin Robins, Professor of Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University Contributors:
Philip Agre (UCLA)
Lee Benson (University of Pennsylvania)
James Cornford (University of Newcastle)
Charles Crook (Loughborough University)
Rosemary Deem (University of Bristol)
Gerard Delanty (University of Liverpool)
Yiannis Gabriel (Imperial College London)
Ira Harkavy (University of Pennsylvania)
Les Levidow (Writer and researcher)
Timothy Luke (Virginia
Polytechnic Institute)
Masao Miyoshi (University of California, San Diego)
David Noble (Writer; former Professor of History at MIT)
Neil Pollock (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Mike Reed (Lancaster University Management School)
Kevin Robins (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Andrew Sturdy (University of Bath)
Martin Trow (University of California, Berkeley)
John Urry (Lancaster University)
Frank Webster (University of Birmingham)
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"This valuable collection of essays avoids both cynical renunciation and breathless proclamation: it can be used as a lucid agenda of the issues." - Anthony Smith, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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Part I: The New Global Context
1: Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: The Virtual University?
2: John Urry: Globalizing the Academy
3: Gerard Delanty: The University and Modernity: A History of the Present
4: Masao Miyoshi: The University in the 'Global' Economy
Part II: Practices and Policies
5: James Cornford and Neil Pollock: Working Through the Work of Making Work Mobile
6: Charles Crook: The Virtual University: The Learner's Perspective
7: Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem: New Managerialism: The Manager-Academic and Technologies of Management in Universities---Looking Forward to Virtuality?
8: Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy: Exporting Management -- Neo-Imperialism and Global Consumerism
9: Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy: Saving the Soul of the University: What is to be Done?
10: Philip Agre: Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University
Part III: Prospects and Possibilities
11: Les Levidow: Marketizing Higher Education: Neo-Liberal Strategies and Counter Strategies
12: Tim Luke: Digital Discourses, Online Classes, Electronic Documents: Developing New University Techno-Cultures
13: David F. Noble: Rehearsal for the Revolution
14: Martin Trow: Some Consequences of the New Information and Communications Technologies for Higher Education
Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: Afterword: What Will be the Global Identity of the University?
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