Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market : The Breakdown of Scientific Thought. 1st ed. 2013

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edited by Sharon Rider, Ylva Hasselberg, Alexandra Waluszewski

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013

著者名:

• Rider, Sharon.
• Hasselberg, Ylva.
• Waluszewski, Alexandra.
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シリーズ名:

Higher Education Dynamics ; 39

ISBN:

9789400752498 [9400752490]    

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Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part one: POLITICS AND POLICY -- 2. Power – knowledge – morals: Society in the age of hybrid research -- 3. Innovation and control: Performative research policy in Sweden -- 4. The scientific mission and the freedom of research -- Part two: ECONOMIC MODELS -- 5. Contemporary research and innovation policy: A double disservice? -- 6. The foundations of knowledge according to The knowledge foundation -- 7. Science policy in a socially embedded economy -- Part three: RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP -- 8. Down the slippery-slope: The perils of the academic research industry -- 9. In defence of discretion -- 10. Publish and perish: A note on a collapsing academic authorship -- Part four: HIGHER EDUCATION -- 11. Methodomania -- 12. Higher heteronomy: Thinking through modern university education -- 13. The academic contract: From “simply a metaphor” to technology -- 14. Conclusion – On the verge of breakdown -- References -- Index.
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As ‘market principles’ are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of ‘managerialism’, many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and replaced by ideological opportunism and economic expediency.   Richly interdisciplinary, the anthology explores a wealth of issues such as the phenomenon of bibliometrics (linking an institution’s success to the volume and visibility of publications produced). Many argue that the use of such indicators to measure scientific value is inimical to the time-consuming complexities of genuine truth-seeking. A number of the greates

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