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Steven Jones

Universities Under Fire

Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education

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This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured cul… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-3-030-96106-0
  • EAN: 9783030961060
  • Produktnummer: 39218727
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.6 cm 386 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 386

Über den Autor


Steven Jones is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Manchester, UK, and currently head of Manchester Institute of Education. His academic background is in English Linguistics, and he brings the tools of critical discourse analysis to the university sector. He has written op-ed pieces for The Guardian and presented research evidence to policy-makers and government ministers.

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