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The University and the Public Good
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The transformation of universities is central to a more general intensification of social inequality, privatization of public institutions, and reorganization of the relation of access to knowledge as mentioned in this paper, which is also a pivotal instance for asking basic questions about the senses in which the university is or may be "public": where does its money come from? (2) who governs? (3) who benefits? and (4) how is knowledge produced and circulated?Abstract:
Universities have flourished in the modern era as central public institutions and bases for critical thought. They are currently challenged by a variety of social forces and undergoing a deep transformation in both their internal structure and their relationship to the rest of society. Critical theorists need to assess this both in order to grasp adequately the social conditions of their own work and because the transformation of universities is central to a more general intensification of social inequality, privatization of public institutions, and reorganization of the relation of access to knowledge. This is also a pivotal instance for asking basic questions about the senses in which the university is or may be ‘public’: (1) where does its money come from? (2) who governs? (3) who benefits? and (4) how is knowledge produced and circulated?read more
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Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub: Empirical and Theoretical Advances in the Sociology of Higher Education
TL;DR: The authors argue that higher education lacks an intellectually coherent sociology; varied research on colleges and universities is dispersed widely throughout the discipline and argue that sociologists have conceived of higher education systems as sieves for sorting and stratifying populations, incubators for the development of competent social actors, temples for the legitimation of official knowledge, and hubs connecting multiple institutional domains.
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Higher education and the achievement (and/or prevention) of equity and social justice
John Brennan,Rajani Naidoo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the theoretical and empirical literature on higher education's role in relation to social equity and related notions of citizenship, social justice, social cohesion and meritocracy.
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Key Challenges to the Academic Profession
Akira Arimoto,John Brennan,Martin J. Finkelstein,Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes,Manuel Gil-Antón,Laura E. Padilla-González,Mary Henkel,Futao Huang,Barbara M. Kehm,Maurice Kogan,V. Lynn Meek +10 more
TL;DR: This publication comprises the papers presented to a workshop held on 5-6 September 2006 in Kassel, Germany and was initiated by the Regional Scientific Committee for Europe and North America of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge.
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Literacy, Literacies and the Digital in Higher Education
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of some recent literature around the "literacies of the digital" in schools and higher education is presented, where the authors explore the continuing role of critical literacy in relation to the idea that digital literacies are transformative for pedagogy in this sector.
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