Knowledge production in European universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7800649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ľubica Kobová (0000-0003-1441-2746, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-150 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1210-3055 • E-ISSN: 1337-401X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/s13374-014-0213-1 |
| OpenAlex | W1984570037 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Kwiek’s Knowledge production in European Universities hits the academic bookshelves in the midst of what is regarded as a protracted crisis in higher education worldwide. The upsurge of resistance to never-ending neoliberal “reforms” could be observed on almost all continents in the past decade (perhaps except for African higher education, which has been subjected to the effects of structural adjustment policies since the 1980s) and has not been limited to higher education exclusively. But while studies of higher education institutions have a long-standing disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary tradition in the UK, USA, Australia and some European countries, in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) (widely defined) scholarly occupation with these issues has been critically lacking. The book under review here aims to bridge this latent divide in the scholarship with a comprehensive view of academic enterprise in Europe, while focusing on the processes of establishing the entrepreneurial university in CEE. This extensive book is divided into two main parts. Almost the first two-thirds of the book introduce the readers to the author’s conceptual framework and the political economy of higher education (HE). The second part refers to and discusses the results of Europeanwide research projects on entrepreneurialism at several European universities. In the second part Kwiek relies on a number of international research projects in which he took part in 2004—2013 and it is the results of these projects that provide readers with important insights into the changing nature of private and public HE institutions in CEE. The first four chapters comprising the first part of the book provide us with a dense overview of the complex changes occurring in academic enterprise over the past decades. Kwiek focuses on the indispensability of a new social contract between state, society and HE drawn up after the demise of the real-socialist state in CEE, in particular, and the general introduction of new public management. The new social contract determines the nature of higher education as well—will it be considered a public or a private good? Kwiek points HUMAN AFFAIRS 24, 148–150, 2014 DOI: 10.2478/s13374-014-0213-1
Discipline · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Knowledge production · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Learning Practices · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2016 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |