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Title Transformations in research, higher education and the academic market : the breakdown of scientific thought / Sharon Rider, Ylva Hasselberg, Alexandra Waluszewski, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer Science + Business Media, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Higher education dynamics, 1571-0378 ; v. 39
Higher education dynamics ; v. 39.
Contents POLITICS AND POLICY -- Power, Knowledge, Morals: Society in the Age of Hybrid Research / Thorsten Nybom -- Innovation and Control: Performative Research Policy in Sweden / Sven Widmalm -- The Scientific Mission and the Freedom of Research / Arne Jarrick -- ECONOMIC MODELS -- Contemporary Research and Innovation Policy: A Double Disservice? / Alexandra Waluszewski -- The Foundations of Knowledge According to the Knowledge Foundation / Mats Hyvönen -- Science Policy in a Socially Embedded Economy / Magnus Eklund -- RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP -- Down the Slippery Slope: The Perils of the Academic Research Industry / Li Bennich-Björkman -- In Defence of Discretion / Ylva Hasselberg -- Publish and Perish: A Note on a Collapsing Academic Authorship / Inge-Bert Täljedal -- HIGHER EDUCATION -- Methodomania / Michael Gustavsson -- Higher Heteronomy: Thinking through Modern University Education / Sharon Rider -- The Academic Contract: From "Simply a Metaphor" to Technology / Daniel Ankarloo, Torbjörn Friberg -- Conclusion: On the Verge of Breakdown / Ylva Hasselberg, Sharon Rider, Alexandra Waluszewski
Summary This book addresses the dangers of mixing business with academics. It shows that the very characteristics that made higher education a success are being eroded and replaced by ideological opportunism and economic expediency
Analysis Education
Education, Higher
Economic policy
Economics
Higher Education
Educational Policy and Politics
Sociology of Education
R & D/Technology Policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Research -- Philosophy
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
Research -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Rider, Sharon
Hasselberg, Ylva
Waluszewski, Alexandra
ISBN 9789400752498
9400752490