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What is the university today?

Heaney, C. (2015) What is the university today? Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 13 (2). pp. 287-314. ISSN 2051-0969. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:100986)

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Abstract

What is the University today? In this paper, a Foucault and Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired approach is taken. I argue that the University is, today, a site of ‘neoliberal governmentality’, which governs students and academics as sites of human capital. That is, students and academics are governed to self-govern themselves as sites of human capital. This transformation in how students and academics are governed will be identified as a recent trend through the examination of relevant UK-government reports on higher education. Furthermore, it will be identified as a trend that ‘decodes’ knowledge-in the specific sense developed by Deleuze and Guattari-which renders academic knowledge (the knowledge the student ‘consumes’ and the knowledge the academic ‘produces’) meaningless. © 2015, Institute for Education Policy Studies. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Additional information: cited By 5
Uncontrolled keywords: Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Knowledge, Neoliberal governmentality, University
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Sian Robertson
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2023 12:55 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 13:06 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/100986 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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