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Neoliberal Developments in Higher Education - The United Kingdom and Germany (Paperback, New edition)
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Neoliberal Developments in Higher Education - The United Kingdom and Germany (Paperback, New edition)
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The paradigmatic values underlying British and German higher
education emphasise personal growth, the wholeness of the
individual, intellectual freedom and the pursuit of knowledge,
which cumulatively can be viewed as a form of academic
essentialism. However, these concepts were generated within a
particular cultural and historical context which has largely been
supplanted by neoliberalism. This book studies the emergence over
the last twenty years of trends that define themselves in
opposition to the traditional university ethos. It addresses the
first experiments with private universities in both the United
Kingdom and Germany, the instigation of bidding and competition for
funding, the assertion of a practical over a theoretical focus in
British teacher education and the contrasting views of their
institutions held by British and German students and staff. It
shows how the antithesis of a neoliberal university system, that of
the former German Democratic Republic, was transformed under the
impact of unification policies. The author also analyses important
social issues, such as gender, in relation to the academic
profession, highlighting how the individual may feel atomised
despite a discourse of equality. Finally, the two higher education
systems are examined within the context of the Bologna Process,
which in many respects embraces academic capitalism - the epitome
of neoliberalism. The book encompasses both qualitative and
quantitative research spanning two decades of scholarship, and
reflects the author's profound engagement with universities and
with British and German academic culture.
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