New languages and landscapes of higher education 1st Edition by Peter Scott,Jim Gallacher,Gareth Parry 0198787081 9780198787082

1. Introduction

Part I. Setting the Scene

2. New Languages and Landscapes

Introduction

Contemporary Challenges

The Wider Environment: Structure and Ideology

New Languages of Higher Education: Theories, Concepts, and Frameworks

Higher Education Today: Systems, Institutions, People, and Knowledge

Conclusion

Part II. Students and Learning

3. Student Participation in the Twenty-first Century: Mass or Universal Systems?

Trow and the Transition from Elite to Mass Higher Education

Changing Patterns of Participation

Beyond Mass Higher Education?

Conclusion

4. The Quality of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum

Introduction

Conceptualizing Good-Quality Undergraduate Teaching

Higher Education Teaching and Learning Research

Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum in a Neoliberal Context

Problems with Contemporary Conceptualization and Measures of ‘Excellent’ Teaching

A Qualitative Approach to Judging High-Quality Teaching

Conclusion

5. Cost-sharing and Student Support

Introduction

What is Cost-Sharing in HE, and Why and How Has It Become Part of the HE Policy Landscape?

What Are the Key Cost-Sharing Policies?

Have Cost-Sharing Policies Met Their Purported Objectives?

Conclusions

Part III. Research and Knowledge Production

6. Of Timescapes and Knowledgescapes: Retiming Research and Higher Education

Introduction

Timescapes, Chronopolitics, and Epistemic Living Spaces

Temporal Modes of Reordering Academia

Concluding Discussion

7. Research in an Open, Global Landscape

Introduction

The Geography of Research

Open Research

The Impact Agenda

Conclusion

Part IV. Universities as Organizations

8. The Rise and Fall of Systems Thinking: Towards a Post-Bourdieuan Study of Field Dynamics

Introduction

The Institutional Field Perspective

The Emergence of a Global Subfield

Regulatory Decentration and Institutional Fragmentation

Higher Education in the Innovation System

Conclusion

9. Higher Education Institutions: Landscape Designers or Contrived Organizations?

Introduction: Autonomy on the Rise?

Indirect Impacts of Government Policies

Expectations regarding Entry into the Community of Higher Education Institutions

Actorhood

An Organizational Boundaries Perspective

Conclusion and Reflection

10. Beyond the Academic Profession, the Organization, and the Nation: New Structures of Academic and Professional Employment

Introduction

Three Changes in Higher Education’s Topography of Employment

Beyond Empirical and Ecological Fallacies

Part V. Higher Education, Society, and the Economy

11. The Public Dimension of Universities: A New Approach

Introduction

Samuelson’s Economic Definition

Dewey and the Political Definition

Combining the Economic and Political Definitions

Educational Equity as Public Good

Global Public Goods

Conclusion

12. Higher Education, Knowledge Capitalism, and the Global Auction for Jobs

Introduction

Knowledge Economy vs. Knowledge Capitalism

A Technological Double Movement and the Rise of Digital Taylorism

A Global Auction: Reshaping Graduate Opportunities in the New Division of Labour

Conclusion

13. Reflections and Conclusions

Introduction

Core Categories and Concepts

Landscapes and Languages