The Toxic University : Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology /: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Smyth.
• Authors: Smyth, John
• Contents: Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: 'Getting an Academic Life'; What Is This Book About?; Why Am I Writing This Book, and in This Particular Way?; Pathological Organizational Dysfunction; What Then Is My Perspective in This Book?; How Is This Book Structured and Organized?; References; Chapter 2 Neoliberalism: An Alien Interloper in Higher Education; 'The End of the University as We Know It' (Brown 2011, p. 117); The 'Corrosion of Character': The Corruption and Proletarianization of an Academic Identity Exploring the 'Hidden Transcripts' of the Neoliberalizing UniversityOut of This Crisis; References; Chapter 3 Why the 'Toxic' University? A Case of Two Very Different Academics; What Is Meant by Toxic?; Academic Work: A Case of Identity Theft?; References; Chapter 4 Why Zombie Leadership?; How Then, Does Zombie Leadership Work in Universities?; Rank Hypocrisies….League Tables and Rankings as an Academic Muzzle!; References; Chapter 5 Cultivation of the 'Rock Star' Academic Researcher?; How Then Is Competition Corrupting Academic Work?; Move Over Collegiality, Loyalty Trumps Productivity Chapter 8 Enough Is Enough…of This Failed Experiment of 'Killing the Host'Let's Hear It Again…Voices from the Academy!; How Then, to Do This-Something About My Method?; Damage, Despair, Violence and Sense of Loss (42 Titles); The Rise of the Marketized, Corporate, Managed, Administrative, Neoliberal University (25 Titles); A Scene of Rampant Confusion and Loss of Way (23 Titles); Attempts at Reclamation, Reinvention, Reimagination, and Recovery from This Ill-Conceived Experiment (20 Titles); References; Chapter 9 Get off My Bus! The Reversal of What We Have Been Doing in Universities Now, for a Major Confessional RecantLet's Subvert the Stupidity of the Proponents; An Educative Way of Confronting This Violence; The Logic of 'Small Wins'; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 378.111; Education; Universities and colleges -- Administration; Education, Higher; EDUCATION / Higher; Universities and colleges -- Administration; Education; Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education -- Administration -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Education; Organization & management of education; Sociology; Educational strategies & policy; Education -- Higher; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137549686; 1137549688; 9781137549679
• Related ISBNs: 9781137549679; 9781137549761; 113754967X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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