Flexing Academic Identities
Speaking Truth to Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Pirrie (0000-0002-3141-3786, corresponding author), Kevin Adamson (corresponding author), Walter Humes (0000-0002-9803-5062, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-106 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2010.2.1.97 |
| OpenAlex | W1974894240 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article is intended as a contribution to the debate on the changing landscape of higher education in the United Kingdom. It challenges the notion that the spread of bureaucratic rationality and the rise of corporate culture have invariably resulted in a loss of meaning in academic life. Drawing upon the work of Onora O'Neill, Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas, the article argues for a more measured response to calls for greater accountability in higher education. The function of university mission groups is also examined, particularly in respect of their role in discursively producing notions of superiority and inferiority in the sector. The authors suggest that it is as much the machinations of influential university mission groups as the ‘iron cage’ of societal rationalisation that have brought about a perceived loss of freedom in academic life
Academic freedom · Accountability · Bureaucracy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Higher education · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Power structure · Rationalisation · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Subjectification · Education, Philosophy, and Society · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law
Commercialising Higher Education in the UK
Academic Identities in Flux
Education in the Liquid-Modern Setting
Undone business
Bureaucracy and its limits
Academic identities under threat
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Education, Accountability, and the Ethical Demand
Why Students are not (Just) Customers (and other reflections on Life After George)
Position of text and discourse analysis in higher education policy research
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |