How far have universities in post-Communist states adopted the
practices and habits of their branded and consumer-oriented
equivalents in the English-speaking world? While not assuming that
university education in those states reflects in any mechanistic
way the regulated, business-led system long established in places
like the US, and now being dramatically realized in countries like
Britain, this edited collection identifies some marked shifts in
the direction of what might best be described as neoliberalisation,
examining its particularities in local situations where
establishment ideologies were, until the early 1990s, deeply alien
to all kinds of commercially driven entities. Many of the authors
are concerned not only with the linked issues of commercialism,
instrumentalism, bureaucracy, and managerialism, framed locally and
nationally, but also with the meaning and purpose of universities
outside or against their status as efficient gatherers of income.
The collection makes specific reference to Lithuania, Hungary,
Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Russia, and comprises theoretical
as well as empirical studies of diverse but connected subjects,
including the marketization of the academy, regional reactions to
globalization as expressed in the representational rhetoric of
specific curricula, the role and place of civic education,
comparisons between educational settings, pedagogies for a critical
and ethical consciousness, corporate and state demands and their
effects on academic freedom, and the positive potential of new
communication technologies. In all these cases, the system of
neoliberalism, or rather an uneven process of neoliberalisation,
forms a backdrop to the particular issues discussed.
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