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Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 53)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1921-4

ISBN: 978-94-024-1919-1

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Feb 28, 2020

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Introduction: An Ethnography of University Reform

Wright, Susan

Pages: 3 –24

[This chapter introduces an ethnographic study of how universities, which are often seen as stable and hard to reform, have nonetheless undergone extensive change in Denmark in a short timespan. The project explores the composition of the reform agenda and traces the process of transformation to...
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Enactment of the University – Issues and Concepts

Wright, Susan

Pages: 25 –51

[This chapter sets out the analytical vocabulary and conceptual framework for an ethnographic exploration of processes of enacting the university, which the co-authors develop further, and in their own ways, in the rest of the book. Academics have a long history of pointing out that ‘The...
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University Reform: International Policy Making Through a Danish Prism

Wright, Susan

Pages: 55 –85

[This chapter provides a historical and international context for the Danish university reform. It analyses Danish policy makers’ participation in the international forums that, from the 1980s to the 2000s, were sites of debate and contestation over different ideas for university reform. First it...
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Contested Narratives of University Reform

Wright, Susan; Ørberg, Jakob Williams

Pages: 87 –126

[The chapter traces a history of contestation over different ways of constructing a ‘problem’ with Danish universities, each presuming a different ‘solution’. The passing of the 2003 university law was a brief hiatus in this process of contestation, when a political alliance formed around some...
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Steering Change – Negotiations of Autonomy and Accountability in the Self-Owning University

Ørberg, Jakob Williams; Wright, Susan

Pages: 127 –153

[This chapter concerns changes to the government’s mechanisms for steering universities. Government and critics alike heralded the 2003 Danish university law as a radical rupture in the history of Danish universities but this chapter questions that view by identifying continuities in government’s...
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Governing the Post-Bureaucratic University

Carney, Stephen

Pages: 157 –186

[This chapter outlines the new architecture of university decision-making after implementation of the University Law of 2003. Reform of higher education in Denmark involved fundamental changes to the governance structure of Danish universities. Global policy efforts to transform universities in...
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Leading the Post-bureaucratic University

Carney, Stephen

Pages: 187 –211

[This chapter explores how, in order to realize the government’s ambition for effective and responsive universities, the 2003 University Reform prioritized the role of visionary and transformational leaders. In a major break with history, rectors, and their faculty deans and heads of department...
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Changing University Discourses, Changing Spaces for Academics – Reconfiguring External Conditions for Being an Academic Subject

Krejsler, John Benedicto

Pages: 215 –238

[This chapter traces the emerging, new external context and conditions that provide the framework for thinking and talking about academic workers in legitimate ways. As the purpose of the university has changed, academic subjects and their identities and working conditions have been changing as...
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Academic Subjectivities at Stake – Different University Contexts, Different Responses to Reform

Krejsler, John Benedicto

Pages: 239 –257

[Chapter 8 traced the change from a receding ‘democratic and Humboldtian university discourse’ to a rapidly emerging ‘knowledge economy university discourse’ and showed that different university contexts responded differently to the new dominant university discourse. As will be explored further...
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Capitalism, Political Participation and the Student as a Revolutionary Figure

Nielsen, Gritt Bykærholm

Pages: 261 –284

[This chapter explores students’ shifting forms of political and pedagogical participation since the early nineteenth century and in particular from the 1960s until the present. In combining historical enquiries with ethnographic fieldwork, it investigates how students have influenced and...

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