Universities, Reflexivity and Critique: Uneasy Parallels in Practice

摘要: There are profound changes affecting universities. Under pressure from the forward march of neo-liberalism, there is a process forgetting about origins university and its distinctive place in society. Whilst responses by management often amplify these consequences, similar tendencies within academic professional cultures. Both combine to enable forms power individualise issues around pursuit recognition for global excellence. Within universities, this creates an organisational space or 'missing middle' that needs be subject reflexive consideration action order unique role society not lost. This article examines forces contribute critical practice resist current develop resistant imaginative