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- Title
What is the University today?
- Authors
Heaney, Conor
- Abstract
What is the University today? In this paper, a Foucault and Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired approach is taken. I argue that the University is, today, a site of 'neoliberal governmentality', which governs students and academics as sites of human capital. That is, students and academics are governed to self-govern themselves as sites of human capital. This transformation in how students and academics are governed will be identified as a recent trend through the examination of relevant UK-government reports on higher education. Furthermore, it will be identified as a trend that 'decodes' knowledge - in the specific sense developed by Deleuze and Guattari - which renders academic knowledge (the knowledge the student 'consumes' and the knowledge the academic 'produces') meaningless.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; TALENT management; NEOLIBERALISM -- Social aspects; HIGHER education; INFORMATION services in education; PARTICIPATORY economics; SOCIAL justice
- Publication
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), 2015, Vol 13, Issue 2, p287
- ISSN
2051-0969
- Publication type
Essay