Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: The Breakdown of Scientific Thought (Higher Education Dynamics)
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 230 ISBN: 9400752482 This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As a?market principlesa?? are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of a?managerialisma??, many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and replaced by ideological opportunism and economic expediency. A Richly interdisciplinary, the anthology explores a wealth of issues such as the phenomenon of bibliometrics (linking an institutiona??s success to the volume and visibility of publications produced). Many argue that the use of such indicators to measure scientific value is inimical to the time-consuming complexities of genuine...
