Beyond the 'Postmodern University
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3969767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Donovan (0000-0002-6105-7794, Brunel University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-41 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2013.748119 |
| OpenAlex | W2076684370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
As an institution, the “postmodern university” is central to the canon of today's research on higher education policy. Yet in this essay I argue that the postmodern university is a fiction that frames and inhibits our thinking about the future university. To understand why the postmodern university is a fiction, I first turn to grand theory and ask whether we can make sense of the notion of “post”-postmodernity. Second, I turn to the UK higher education sector and show that the postmodern university is a chimera, a modern artefact of competing instrumentalist, gothic, and postmodernist discourses. Third, I discuss competing visions of the future university and find that the progressive (yet modernist) agendas that re-imagine the public value of knowledge production, transmission, and contestation, are those that can move us beyond the palliative and panacea of the postmodern university
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Higher education · Instrumentalism · Political science · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Sociology · Vision · Education, Philosophy, and Society · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Philosophy · Postmodernism in Literature and Education
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |