The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology (Palgrave Critical University Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0736P2PVF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is also Emeritus Research Professor of Education at Federation University, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Education at Flinders University, Australia. . He is author of 35 books, a former Senior Fulbright Research Scholar, recipient of several awards from the American Educational Research Association, and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. John Smyth
It provides a penetrating critique of what’s happening to academic labour and what might be done about it. “Vividly illustrates how academia is being ruined by the pernicious stupidity of neoliberalism, and why it is so important we resist this incursion, corruption and degradation!” (Robin Simmons, Professor of Education, University of Huddersfield, UK) “Calls out one of the most dangerous ideologies infecting universities today, neoliberalism. A gem of a book written with passion, sociological curiosity and commitment to the truly educative purposes of universities.” (Barry Down, Profes
John Smyth provides a trenchant and excoriating analysis of how universities have enveloped themselves in synthetic and meaningless marketing hype, and explains what this has done to academic work and the culture of universities – specifically, how it has degraded higher education and exacerbated social inequalities among both staff and students. It should be essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of education and sociology, and anyone interested in the current state of university management.. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an impenetrable mush of economic babble, spurious spin-offs of zombie economics, management-speak and militaristic-corporate jargon. Finally, the book explores how we might commence a reclamation. This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result
FoxyVil said I'm submitting this review to echo and agree with the. I'm submitting this review to echo and agree with the previous reviewer. How can anyone purchase this book if even the ebook version is extremely expensive? Ironically, the very greed and profit motive that, going by advance previews and author interviews, is infecting academia obviously extends to greedy publishers who would rather cash it in than contribute to the production and dissemination of knowledge. Palgrave should be damned and boycotted.. The radical imagination said Book Should be published in Paperback. The price of this book makes it unsaleable. This strategy of publishing hardbacks only by Palgrave Macmillan is another example of the greed that motivates large commercial publishes.