Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:David Harvie, Gibson Burrell, Ronald HartzPublish date:2024-09-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zero BooksISBN-13:9781803417967ISBN-10:180341796XUPC:9781803417967Book Category:Education, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Civil Rights, Political ProcessBook Topic:Political AdvocacySize:8.50 x 5.54 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCZJ5HVDJQ
Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these mass redundancies, they were in the ring - both as targeted employees and as...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zero BooksISBN-13:9781803417967ISBN-10:180341796XUPC:9781803417967Book Category:Education, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Civil Rights, Political ProcessBook Topic:Political AdvocacySize:8.50 x 5.54 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCZJ5HVDJQ
David Harvie is a deprofessionalised intellectual. Until 2021 he sold his labour-power to the University of Leicester, where he was associate professor of finance and political economy. He is co-founder of the Institute for Commoning and of The Breakdown Institute. He lives in Leeds, UK.
Gibson Burrell is Honorary Professor of Organisation Theory at the Universities of Manchester, Lancaster and...
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