Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy: Action Research in Higher EducationPublic universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be democratically organized to perform their educational and societal functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy. |
Contents
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Part I Public Goods Bildung Public Universities and Democracy | 19 |
Chapter 1 Public Goods Democracy and Public Universities | 21 |
Chapter 2 Multiple Models and Meanings of Higher Education | 37 |
Chapter 3 Bildung Academic Freedom Academic Integrity and Democracy | 54 |
Stakeholders Structures Systems Steering Leadership and AntiBildung | 77 |
Chapter 4 The Work Organization of Universities Structures | 79 |
Chapter 5 The Work Organization of Universities Systemic Analysis | 93 |
Chapter 7 Leadership and Steering in Public Universities | 135 |
Action Research for NeueBildung in Public Universities | 151 |
Chapter 8 Action Research as a Strategy for Organizational Change | 153 |
Chapter 9 Practicing Action Research in Public Universities | 168 |
Conclusion What Difference Could Action Research in Public Universities Make? | 194 |
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Chapter 6 Processes in the Work Organization of Universities | 111 |
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