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Academic Freedom
academic leadership
Academic Practice
Academic Practitioner
Academic Professionalism
Academic Work Places
Animal Kingdom
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Chronic
civic engagement universities
Civic Spaces
Civil Society
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Diff Erent Trajectories
dispositions
Drawn Back
educational values reform
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Examined Life
Good Life
higher education ethics
Human Fl Ourishing
institutional stratification
Kierkegaard
moral
moral purpose in university management
Play Back
practice
practitioner
Professional Dealings
professional integrity academia
professionalism
purposefulness
Runaway World
Sceptical Solution
Self-affi Rmation
Soren Kierkegaard
Virtuous Dispositions
Virtuous Friendship
Virtuous Institutions
Product details
- ISBN 9780415875141
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive innovation. This book argues that in the majority of institutions, these goals are being pursued to the exclusion of academic excellence and public service. It proposes that there is a marked lack of intellectual leadership at senior management level within HE institutions and that academic workers must assume responsibility for the moral purposefulness of their institutions. This will not be a retreat into the old values of an elitist 'ivory tower', but a rejection of the current deeply stratified university system which prematurely selects students for differentiated institutional streams.
