Building on Ourania Filippakou’s previous work on higher education in the fields of governance, neoliberalism, university entrepreneurialism and marketization, institutional and social stratification, Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe contributes to the debate on higher education from a critical policy perspective. Introducing new ideas on the relationships between the alleged pursuit of excellence in higher education and the ways in which both deploys and reflects how power is wielded in Europe and other neoliberal capitalist societies. The term "legitimation" is here coined to emphasize how new coercive strategies, political decisions, and management styles have emerged in the age of excellence in higher education. The book concludes with a more personal reflection on the neutrality of higher education and its illusory promises.
Author(s): Ourania Filippakou
Series: Critical Interventions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 173
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributor Biography
Acknowledgements
Part I Higher Education and the Crisis of Politics in Europe
1 Rethinking the Changing Landscape of Higher Education
Proceedings
2 Higher Education and Critical Pedagogy: A Path Forward
Introduction
Territories of Education
Approach
Higher Education: A Public Matter
Notes
Part II Neoliberal Ideology and the Politics of the Quality Agenda in the UK and Europe
3 Confronting the Quality Agenda: A Case Study
Introduction
Ideology and Discourse
Ideology
Discourse
Conceptualizing “Quality” as a Network of Discourses
Ideological Discourses
Power and the Presence of Ideology
The Quality Agenda: The Ideological and Political Direction
Conclusions
4 Legitimizing the Quality Agenda: Evolution and the Politics of Normalization
Introduction
The Current Problem
The Nearly Contemporary
External Examiners
The Polytechnic Sector and the Council for National Academic Awards
The Academic Audit Unit
The Funding Councils and the Higher Education Quality Council
The Quality Assurance Agency
A Schematic Summary
Quality Enhancement
The Emergence of TEF
A Note on the Discourse of Quality and the “European” Quality Agenda
Conclusion
Part III the New Managerialism and the Changing Face of Higher Education
5 The Changing Politics of Governance in Higher Education Under Neoliberalism
Introduction
From the UGC to the Funding Council Model of Governance and the TEF
The TEF: Towards the Emergence of the Regulated Market
The Politics of Higher Education Policy: Government and State in the Process of Change
Globalization and Neoliberal Ideologies
Neo-Liberalism, Marketization, and the Quality of “Teaching and Learning”
6 Rethinking Higher Education Beyond the Neoliberal Paradigm
Introduction
The Problem
The Genealogy of a Field
Ways of Understanding Higher Education
Systems and Knowledge
Entrepreneurial Universities as a New Paradigm of “Development”
Conclusion
Part IV Challenges and Possibilities
7 Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Multiple Pandemics
Introduction
The New Political Formation: Neoliberal Fascism
Critical Pedagogy: Remaking Education Central to Politics
On the Politics of Educated Hope
Conclusion: Critical Pedagogy as a Social Movement
Notes
8 Conclusion: Why Higher Education Policy, Pedagogy, and Research Should Not Be Neutral: Reclaiming Education as a ...
A Final Word on Hope
Bibliography
Index
