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Higher education and its communities
- Title
- Higher education and its communities / edited by Ian McNay.
- Publication
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, PA : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- viii, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Universities and colleges have long been seen as academic communities. This book explores how the nature of these communities is changing under pressure for autonomy to be balanced by accountability; and from resource constraints from the state that is now a sponsor or client rather than a patron (leading to competition rather than collegiality). It also explains the positions of higher education institutions in relation to their regional communities, minority groups, the work of the European Community, and links to employers and learning in the community, at work and elsewhere. The final section of Higher Education and its Communities looks at how new technologies open up the global community but also may affect relationships within the learning communities at the heart of higher education''s core functions; and looks at the danger of a control culture in a community where IT allows, indeed requires, a record of activities and transactions that are open to surveillance. Nevertheless, the values of the academic community live on even in societies with a historical oppression and that is the message of the book''s final chapter.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- "The chapters in this collection have been developed from papers prepared for, and presented at, the 1999 Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education in Manchester"--Acknowledgements.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1 Community: A Diverse Conceptualization and Realization / Ian McNay 3 -- Part 1 Academic Community 11 -- 2 Persistent Ghosts: Romantic Origins of the Idea of University Communities / John Wyatt 13 -- 3 Higher Education Communities and Academic Identity / Maurice Kogan 29 -- 4 PhD Examination: An Exercise in Community-building and Gatekeeping / Carolyn Jackson, Penny Tinkler 38 -- 5 Becoming an Educator: Communities of Practice in Higher Education / Janice Malcolm, Miriam Zukas 51 -- 6 Managerialism and University Managers: Building New Academic Communities or Disrupting Old Ones? / Rosemary Deem, Rachel Johnson 65 -- 7 Territorial Disputes: The Impact of Quality Assurance on Relationships between Academic and Institutional Values / John Brennan, Tarla Shah 85 -- 8 From Ivory Tower to Knowledge Factory? The Impact of Industry Links on Academics in a Chinese University and a British University / Su-Ann Oh 95 -- Part 2 Hinterland Community 107 -- 9 Role of Higher Education for Adults in their Communities: Nurturing Social Capital / Julia Preece 109 -- 10 Higher Education and Diversity: Regional Learning Infrastructures and Student Progression in the Post-Dearing Era / Judith Watson, David Yeomans, David Smith, Nick Nelson, Patrick Ainley 122 -- 11 European Community: A Case Study of Higher Education Policy Making / Anne Corbett 134 -- 12 Lifelong Learning in the Workplace: A Comparison of France and the UK / Yvonne Hillier 148 -- Part 3 Future Community: Virtuality, Reality and Liberal Idealism 165 -- 13 Virtual Learning Communities and the Role of Computer-mediated Communication Conferencing: Practices and Problems / Ann Lahiff, Edwin Webb 167 -- 14 Virtual Learning Community: Informating the Learning Process with On-line Learning Environments / Kevin Brosnan 184 -- 15 Culling Community from Conceptual Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Prospects for Building Higher Education Communities in the Twenty-first Century / Eric Gilder 194.
- ISBN
- 0335207340
- 9780335207343
- LCCN
- 00037512
- OCLC
- ocm43851425
- 43851425
- SCSB-1214514
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library