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For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution
Thomas Docherty
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Description for For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution
Paperback. For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JNK; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles. The book considers the place of the university as an important global institution, now in a charged political and international public sphere. Docherty places current debates within their wider economic ... Read more
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles. The book considers the place of the university as an important global institution, now in a charged political and international public sphere. Docherty places current debates within their wider economic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849666152
SKU
V9781849666152
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About Thomas Docherty
Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance to the present day. He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, ... Read more
Reviews for For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution
'Full marks to this book for topicality...There are many original ideas, many acute observations, many interesting connections...a thorough engagement with the topic.'
Times Higher Education Supplement (16 June 2011)
'a useful and telling indictment of much that is wrong with how universities are viewed and managed at present'
New Statesman (4 July 2011)
For the University ... Read more
Times Higher Education Supplement (16 June 2011)
'a useful and telling indictment of much that is wrong with how universities are viewed and managed at present'
New Statesman (4 July 2011)
For the University ... Read more