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Redefining the Public University: analytical framework
Redefining the Public University: analytical framework

Author(s): Michael Burawoy
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: public university; regulation; commodification; critical; the study of education

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to diagnose the position of the modern university and the development of tools that could provide a basis to redefine its meaning. As two key factors structuring the academic field today, the author points to control and commodification. A kind of counterweight to the instrument / process is to form the idea of ​​a public university, understood as active, critical contribution to the discussion of social development

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 13-30
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish