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Author Kronstad Felde, Andrea. Author.

Title Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University Within the Academic Profession / By Andrea Kronstad Felde, Tor Halvorsen, Anja Myrtveit & Reidar Oygard.

Publication Info. Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2021
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource 322 sidor)
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Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Summary "Democracy and the Discourse of Relevance is set against the backdrop of the spread of neoliberal ideas and reforms since the 1980s, accepting also that these ideas are rooted in a longer history. It focuses on how neoliberalism has worked to transform the university sector and the academic profession. In particular, it examines how understandings of, and control over, what constitutes relevant knowledge have changed. Taken as a whole, these changes have sought to reorient universities and academics towards economic development in various ways. This includes the installation of strategies for how institutions and academics achieve recognition and status within the academy, the privatisation of educational services and the downgrading of the value of public higher education, as well as a steady shift away from the public funding for universities. Research universities are increasingly adopting a user- and market-oriented model, with an emphasis on meeting corporate demands, the privileging of short-term research, and a strong tendency to view utility, and the potential to sell intellectual property for profit, as primary criteria for determining the relevance of academic knowledge..."
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Makerere University.
Makerere University
Education, Higher -- Uganda -- History.
Academic freedom -- Economic aspects -- Uganda.
Universities and colleges -- Uganda -- Finance.
Enseignement supérieur -- Ouganda -- Histoire.
Liberté de l'enseignement -- Aspect économique -- Ouganda.
Universités -- Ouganda -- Finances.
Colleges of higher education.
Academic freedom -- Economic aspects
Education, Higher
Universities and colleges -- Finance
Uganda https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdcxwbtk4ChHbHRf6bfMP
EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher
Indexed Term Democracy
discourse
higher education
knowledge production
Genre/Form History
Added Author Oygard, Reidar. Author.
Myrtveit, Anja. Author.
Halvorsen, Tor. Author.
Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9781928502272
192850227X
1928502288
9781928502289 (electronic bk.)
9781928502296
1928502296

 
    
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