Overview
- Uses a national lens to study international higher education reform
- Uniquely incorporates voices from students, academics and policy-makers
- Clearly shows what forces shaped Danish universities after the millennium
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 53)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Approach
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Imagining and Enacting a Reformed University
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University Governance and Management
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Enactment of Students
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe’s most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective. It incorporates voices positioned across university and policy-making hierarchies in its analysis of how Danish universities have been transformed. To do this, the book continually juxtaposes two meanings of ‘enactment’: a top-down view based on laws and institutional power, and a bottom-up view of multiple actors shaping their institution in day-to-day life and in actively contested changes. By conceiving of the university as ‘enacted’ in both ways at once, the book explores how and why the university comes to be imagined and instantiated in new ways.
The book traces the arguments for reform through a two-decade long, dynamic struggle between international forums and national industrial, political and academic interests over the definition of the university. It discusses which ideas finally became dominant and how this happened. It looks at government reforms from 2003 onwards, and, by means of notable ‘telling moments’, explains how the governance and management of the university were transformed. It examines how academics found room to manoeuvre between contesting discourses that affect their identity and work. Finally, it shows how students engaged with new versions of historical debates about their participation in shaping their own education, their institution and society.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective
Authors: Susan Wright, Stephen Carney, John Benedicto Krejsler, Gritt Bykærholm Nielsen, Jakob Williams Ørberg
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1921-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1919-1Published: 28 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1921-4Published: 27 February 2020
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary