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      Universities in the Flux of Time
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      Universities in the Flux of Time

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      Universities in the Flux of Time book

      An exploration of time and temporality in university life

      Universities in the Flux of Time

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      Universities in the Flux of Time book

      An exploration of time and temporality in university life
      Edited ByPaul Gibbs, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Ronald Barnett
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 5 December 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/978131573883
      Pages 222
      eBook ISBN 9781315738833
      Subjects Education
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      Gibbs, P., Ylijoki, O.-H., Guzmán-Valenzuela, C., & Barnett, R. (Eds.). (2014). Universities in the Flux of Time: An exploration of time and temporality in university life (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978131573883

      ABSTRACT

      Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those they service. These changes are accompanied by a quickening of time, leading to a heightened intensity of academic life. Yet the nature of time in all the contemporary work on the university has been largely overlooked. This is an important omission and Universities in the Flux of Time has gathered leading academics whose contributions to the volume raise a debate as to the influence and use of time in the university. They do this in an exploration of how these changes are perceived in higher education and how these affect its temporality from local, national and global perspectives. By dealing with the time within the university, the book opens new spaces for the development of the university and civic society.

      The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of the temporal issues of engaging with the past, present and future of higher education and its institutions, through consideration of the increased speed demanded for the production of able students and innovative research, to the accountability pressures from central governments and commerce. Reflecting on these issues in the higher education sector, Universities in the Flux of Time is split into three parts, with each one addressing time and its multiple relationships with the university:

      • Past, present and future
      • Knowledge and time
      • Living with time

      This volume will provide essential reading for those on higher education studies courses as well as a wider audience of managers, practitioners, policy makers, academics and students and from many disciplinary perspectives including sociology, organisation studies, social psychology and the philosophy of education.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |6 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      PART 1 Past, present and future

      chapter 1|23 pages

      The university in the epoch of digital reason: fast knowledge in the circuits of cybernetic capitalism

      ByMichael A. Peters

      chapter 2|14 pages

      University fashions: on ideas whose time has come

      ByBarbara Czarniawska

      chapter 3|11 pages

      If time doesn’t exist, why are we learning about the past?

      ByPaul Gibbs

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Organizational devolution: the old, new and future American research universities in the age of privatization

      ByJohn Aubrey Douglass

      part |2 pages

      PART 2 Knowledge and time

      chapter 5|15 pages

      When innovation becomes conformist: academic research in network time

      ByRobert Hassan

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Conquered by project time? Conflicting temporalities in university research

      ByOili-Helena Ylijoki

      chapter 7|13 pages

      Different times: temporality, curriculum and powerful knowledge

      BySue Clegg

      chapter 8|14 pages

      The time of reason and the ecological university

      ByRonald Barnett

      part |2 pages

      PART 3 Living with time

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Discovery and delivery: time schemas and the bureaucratic university

      ByPeter Murphy

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Competing narratives of time in the managerial university: the contradictions of fast time and slow time

      ByCarolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Roberto Di Napoli

      chapter 11|14 pages

      Higher education and an ethic of time

      ByMarianna Papastephanou

      chapter 12|15 pages

      Academic time and the time of academics

      ByAngela Brew
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