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The Transformation of Academic Work
eBook - Fractured Futures?, Palgrave Critical University Studies
ISBN/EAN: 9783031410345
Umbreit-Nr.: 821149
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 3.47 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.09.2023
Auflage: 1/2023
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work. It charts international and Australia-based efforts to overcome academic fragmentation and precarity, and to advance agendas for the public university. It is based on extensive qualitative interviews with academics and managers across several universities in Australia. It finds new grounds for universal universities, with decent jobs, to serve the public good. The book is aimed at students and scholars from sociology, education, politics and industrial relations, and a wider readership concerned about the future of universities. Analysis centres on a trade union-led initiative in Australia aimed at decasualising universities, and ensuing debates about the impact of academic fragmentation. The authors argue for strengthening the teaching/research nexus as the foundation-stone for public purpose universities.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>James Goodman</b> is Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has investigated changing concepts of academic work andwas a lead researcher for the project that led to this book. He is co-author of<i>Academic Casualization in Australia</i> (2010) and<i>Hope and Activism in the Ivory Tower</i> (2006). He researches political sociology and social movement politics and is co-author of<i>Beyond the Coal Rush</i> (2020),<i>Climate Upsurge</i> (2014), and<i> Global Justice</i> (2013). </p><p><b>Claire Parfitt</b> is Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. She writes about the social studies of finance, value theory, intellectual property, social movements, and labour rights. Her latest work is a critique of ethical investing and corporate sustainability.</p><p><b>Keiko Yasukawa</b> is Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She researches in the areas of adult and lifelong education, and adult literacy and numeracy with a focus on the tensions between policy, practice, and pedagogy.</p><p></p>