Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wright, Susan (Author), Carney, Stephen (Author), Krejsler, John Benedicto (Author), Nielsen, Gritt Bykærholm (Author), Williams Ørberg, Jakob (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XVII, 329 p. 13 illus., 8 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Higher Education Dynamics, 53
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1921-4
Format: Electronic Book
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.