The Future of University Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: The Future of University Education

   • Michał Izak, Monika Kostera, Michał Zawadzki

   Pages 1-16

3. Dissecting the Status Quo

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?

      • Carl Rhodes

      Pages 19-38

   3. The University of the Common: Beyond the Contradictions of Higher Education Subsumed under Capital

      • Krystian Szadkowski

      Pages 39-62

   4. “The Last in the Food Chain”: Dignity of Polish Junior Academics and Doctoral Candidates in the Face of Performance Management

      • Michał Zawadzki

      Pages 63-84

   5. The Culture of Control in the Contemporary University

      • Łukasz Sułkowski

      Pages 85-108

4. University in Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Living in a World of Foam: Global Ideas, Bubbles, Institutions and the Fairy Tale of Business Education

      • Carmelo Mazza, Paolo Quattrone

      Pages 111-121

   3. The Future of the University? Social Activism among Young Polish Scholars

      • Krzysztof Leja, Anna M. Kola

      Pages 123-144

   4. University as a Terminal: Socio-Material Infrastructure for Post-Neoliberal Society

      • Krzysztof Nawratek

      Pages 145-156

5. Teaching and Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. McLearning and the So-Called Knowledge Society: An Essay

      • Roy Jacques

      Pages 159-183

   3. Neoliberalism’s War against Higher Education and the Role of Public Intellectuals

      • Henry A. Giroux

      Pages 185-206

   4. Re-Imagining Business Schools of the Future as Places of Theorizing

      • Hugo Gaggiotti, Peter Simpson, Svetlana Cicmil

      Pages 207-225

   5. Re-Integrating the Professional Learner: The Complementarity of Teaching and Research in Academic Life

      • David Sims

      Pages 227-241

6. Into the Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Escape from the Neo-Liberal Higher Education Prison: A Proposal for a New Digital Communist University

      • Roger Hallam

      Pages 245-269

   3. A Curious and Collaborative Future

      • Todd Hannula

      Pages 271-292

   4. Speculations on University Futures in 2025: Corporate Cloning, Intellectual Underground, and a New Critical Awareness

      • George Cairns

      Pages 293-308

This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university every year, there is a strong resistance to the notion that the university as a collegial and critical institution is dead, among academics as well as the broader public. With contributions from scholars across the world, this edited collection explores the ramifications of marketization on universities, and provides glimpses of what higher education will look like in the future. It will be of great interest to teachers and students in higher education, as well as policy makers and those interested in the current and future state of higher education.

• Higher Education
• Research
• Student
• Academic
• Change
• Tertiary education

“For everyone interested in the treasured but uncertain future of twenty-first century university education, this rich collection of essays provides a landmark resource to counter and think beyond the current marketization and instrumentalization of higher education. Combining abundant insight with deep argumentation, thoughtful discussion with civic responsibility, this book not only analyzes and dissects in precise terms the current problems of neo-liberal university systems, but it offers a plethora of alternative values, rationales and possibilities that may invigorate the legacy of a collegial, critical and independent institution and re-imagine its position in the public sphere.” (Chris Steyaert, Professor of Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)

“The Future of University Education edited by Michał Izak, Monika Kostera and Michał Zawadzki provides an insightful collection ofessays on the current and future status of our university education. Given the changes in funding, policies and procedures implemented almost globally in the education sector over the last decade, this volume is not only topical but also of great interest. The contributions offer critical discussions that go beyond the commercialization of education and the neoliberal higher education system to address ethical, pedagogic and civic issues. The chapters also offer possible alternatives for a more collegiate, inspiring and educational University environment in the future.”  (Ilaria Boncori, Senior Lecturer in Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship; University of Essex, United Kingdom)

• Lincoln Business School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

  Michał Izak

• Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

  Monika Kostera

• Institute of Culture, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

  Michał Zawadzki

Michał Izak is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Lincoln, UK.

 

Monika Kostera is Professor Ordinaria and Chair of Management at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Professor and Chair in Management at Durham University, UK.

 

Michał Zawadzki works in the Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. 

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