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Performing Academics: Return to Meritocracy?

Performing Academics: Return to Meritocracy?

Slawek Magala, Michal Zawadzki
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522519836|ISBN10: 1522519831|EISBN13: 9781522519843
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1983-6.ch005
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Magala, Slawek, and Michal Zawadzki. "Performing Academics: Return to Meritocracy?." Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization, edited by Pierfranco Malizia, et al., IGI Global, 2017, pp. 88-104. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1983-6.ch005

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Magala, S. & Zawadzki, M. (2017). Performing Academics: Return to Meritocracy?. In P. Malizia, C. Cannavale, & F. Maimone (Eds.), Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization (pp. 88-104). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1983-6.ch005

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Magala, Slawek, and Michal Zawadzki. "Performing Academics: Return to Meritocracy?." In Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization, edited by Pierfranco Malizia, Chiara Cannavale, and Fabrizio Maimone, 88-104. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1983-6.ch005

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Abstract

There is a growing number of critics who claim that modern changes of the university, based on the market fundamentalism and performance management paradigm, undermine the academic culture, ethos and trust and weaken the cultural mission of the university. The chapter focuses on a critique of the ongoing erosion of an important cultural function performed until very recently by the Western universities, which is democratization of social life through development of critical thinking, imagination, and through cultivation of social and humanistic sensibility. The main aim of this chapter is to analyze the current state of the corporate university and to reflect on the bureaucracy as a potential solution for the neoliberal limitations.

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