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Title: | Beyond the 'postmodern university' |
Authors: | Donovan, C |
Keywords: | The postmodern university;Higher education;Higher education policy;Knowledge production;Academia |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
Citation: | The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 18(1): 24 - 41,(2013) |
Abstract: | As an institution, the “postmodern university” is central to the canon of today's research on higher education policy. Yet in this essay I argue that the postmodern university is a fiction that frames and inhibits our thinking about the future university. To understand why the postmodern university is a fiction, I first turn to grand theory and ask whether we can make sense of the notion of “post”-postmodernity. Second, I turn to the UK higher education sector and show that the postmodern university is a chimera, a modern artefact of competing instrumentalist, gothic, and postmodernist discourses. Third, I discuss competing visions of the future university and find that the progressive (yet modernist) agendas that re-imagine the public value of knowledge production, transmission, and contestation, are those that can move us beyond the palliative and panacea of the postmodern university. |
Description: | Copyright @ 2013 International Society for the Study of European Ideas. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 18(1), 24 - 41, 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10848770.2013.748119. |
URI: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10848770.2013.748119 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9790 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2013.748119 |
ISSN: | 1084-8770 |
Appears in Collections: | Health Economics Research Group (HERG) |
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