Hard Labour? Academic Work and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education (International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 7) - Hardcover

Tanya Fitzgerald; Julie White; Helen Gunter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780525001 ISBN 13: 9781780525006

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have experienced massive changes in the past three decades. Across England, the US, Australia and New Zealand, new public management has introduced corporate governance structures, strategic plans, performance management, quality assurance processes, a client-focused approach to students and curriculum, and a commodification of higher education that has seen an unprecedented growth in international student numbers. Increased numbers of HEIs has stimulated a variety of challenges for administrators, academics, students and the broader community. Drawing on data from England, Australia and New Zealand, this book addresses how policies of successive labour governments have decreased autonomy of academics and increased regimes of surveillance, radically altering how academics think about and engage in their intellectual work. It provokes the reader to think critically about the emergence of corporate styles of governance, management and leadership in HEIs and ways in which the demands of new public management and the knowledge economy has shaped and re-shaped scholarly work and identity.

About this title

About the Author:

Tanya Fitzgerald - La Trobe University, Australia
Julie White - La Trobe University, Australia
Helen Gunter - Manchester University, UK

Review:

Fitzgerald (educational leadership and management), Julie White (education, both La Trobe U., Australia), and Helen M. Gunter (educational policy, U. of Manchester, Britain) respond to a period of intense turmoil and change in higher education in Australia and England by initiating a dialogue on what it means to be an academic and engage in academic work in the 21st century. Each has chosen a theme through which to examine the changes, tensions, and uncertainties. Among their topics are intellectual work and knowledge production, academic work and performance, and ivory basements and ivory towers. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780525001
• ISBN 13: 9781780525006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205