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The toxic university = zombie leadership, academic rock stars and neoliberal ideology /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The toxic university/ by John Smyth.
Reminder of title:	zombie leadership, academic rock stars and neoliberal ideology /
Author:	Smyth, John.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 235 p. :digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Universities and colleges - Administration. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54968-6
ISBN:	9781137549686

The toxic university = zombie leadership, academic rock stars and neoliberal ideology /
Smyth, John.

The toxic universityzombie leadership, academic rock stars and neoliberal ideology /[electronic resource] :by John Smyth. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - xi, 235 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Palgrave critical university studies. - Palgrave critical university studies..

Chapter 1. Introduction: 'Getting an Academic Life' -- Chapter 2. Neoliberalism: An Alien Interloper in Higher Education -- Chapter 3. Why the 'Toxic' University? A Case of Two Very Different Academics -- Chapter 4. Why Zombie Leadership? -- Chapter 5. Cultivation of the 'Rock Star' Academic Researcher? -- Chapter 6. The University as an Instrument of 'Class' -- Chapter 7. The 'Cancer Stage of Capitalism' in Universities -- Chapter 8. Enough is Enough... of this Failed Experiment of Killing the Host -- Chapter 9. Get Off My Bus! The Reversal of What We have been Doing in Universities.

This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an impenetrable mush of economic babble, spurious spin-offs of zombie economics, management-speak and militaristic-corporate jargon. John Smyth provides a trenchant and excoriating analysis of how universities have enveloped themselves in synthetic and meaningless marketing hype, and explains what this has done to academic work and the culture of universities - specifically, how it has degraded higher education and exacerbated social inequalities among both staff and students. Finally, the book explores how we might commence a reclamation. It should be essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of education and sociology, and anyone interested in the current state of university management.

ISBN: 9781137549686

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-54968-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

585507
Universities and colleges
--Administration.

LC Class. No.: LB2341 / .S565 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 378.111

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