Eliciting the institutional myth: exploring the ethos of ‘the university’ in Germany and England

Budd, Richard W.

doi:10.1080/21568235.2017.1358100

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“…Apesar de não configurar uma experiência unívoca e ortodoxamente replicável nas diferentes latitudes do globo, o modelo educativo neoliberal caracteriza-se por uma perspetiva instrumental da educação (Lauder e Mayhew, 2020) alimentada pelas teorias do capital humano, que deixou de privilegiar a formação do pensamento crítico e do compromisso cívico (Giroux, 2016) para estar ao serviço da economia e da prosperidade das nações, orientando-se para a produção dos trabalhadores requeridos pelo mercado de trabalho. Assim, com a adesão dos sistemas universitários ao modelo neoliberal assistiu-se à subordinação dos principais valores académicos a um novo ideário de matriz económica (Budd, 2018) que está subjacente, nomeadamente, ao Processo de Bolonha (Teodoro, 2015). A ênfase da universidade na questão da empregabilidade e a marginalização de cursos das áreas humanísticas em benefício de cursos científicos e de natureza tecnológica (Mintz, 2021;Costa, 2019) são expressão dessa tentação pelo "utilitarismo" (Nóvoa, 2020) que atinge a educação superior.…”

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Tensões e reconfigurações no Ensino Superior: o modelo neoliberal chileno em debate

Quaresma

2023

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Este artigo apresenta uma discussão teórica sobre a reconfiguração da universidade no sentido da massificação e mercadorização, tomando como exemplo o Chile, um dos países do mundo mais permeáveis às lógicas de mercado. Analisam-se os desafios de um processo de massificação ancorado na privatização e na segregação social e os recentes movimentos estudantis chilenos de contestação à mercadorização da educação. Discute-se assim um modelo educativo aplicado pelo neoliberalismo real durante 40 anos, acreditando ser este exemplo um contributo profícuo para o debate nacional em países onde os ventos da ideologia de mercado sopram com mais força.

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Tensões e reconfigurações no Ensino Superior: o modelo neoliberal chileno em debate

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2023

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“…2. Neo-institutional theory … “A relatively enduring collection of rules and organised practices, embedded in structures of meaning and resources that are relatively invariant in the face of turnover and changing external circumstances.” (Budd, 2018, p. 138). As an institution, HEI internalises its logics through the combination of coercion, mimesis and normative isomorphism because in modern society, HEIs management aims to strength the position of university as a corporate actor (Urbanek, 2021).…”

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Measuring the impact of corporate governance on non-financial reporting in the top HEIs worldwide

Parajuli

Chhatbar

Hassan

2022

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Purpose This study aims to measure the relationship between corporate governance and non-financial reporting (NFR) in higher education institutions (HEIs). Board effectiveness, student engagement, audit quality, Vice-Chancellor (VC) pay and VC gender are targeted for analysis. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on content analysis. The authors used the EU NFR Directive (2014/95/EU) to measure NFR. This includes environmental, corporate social responsibility, human rights, corporate board effectiveness and corruption and bribery. Cross-sectional data was collected from 89 HEIs worldwide across 15 different countries over three years. Content analysis, the weighted scoring method and panel data analysis are used to obtain the results. Findings Through a neo-institutional theoretical lens, this study provides a broader understanding of NFR content disclosure practices within HEIs. The findings reveal that the audit quality, VC pay and VC gender are significantly and positively associated with NFR content disclosure. However, board effectiveness has a significant negative impact on NFR content disclosure. More interestingly, the findings reveal that student engagement has an insignificant association with NFR content disclosure and there significant difference on the level of NFR content disclosure across universities situated in the different geographical region such as the USA, Australia, the UK and EU, Asia and Canada. The findings have important implications for regulators and policymakers. The evidence appears to be robust when controlling for possible endogeneities. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature on corporate non-financial disclosure as it provides new insights of corporate governance mechanisms and NFR disclosure within HEIs.

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Looking for Love in the Student Experience

Budd

2020

Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives

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This chapter represents an early attempt to engage and think with the ethos that underpins the Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy (Hodgson et al. 2017), specifically from a sociology of education perspective. The Manifesto is an exhortation to move beyond the critical by also celebrating what we may love and therefore wish to preserve in education. With this in mind, the author undertakes a re-examination of the literature on the university student experience in the UK. They argue that, outside pedagogical research on students, there are three overlapping but somewhat distinct literatures, each of which focuses primarily on social inequalities, aspects of marketization, or geographies, in relation to higher education. It appears that there are gaps in each of these bodies of scholarship, with some dimensions of identity underrepresented in the first, surprisingly little empirical work in the second, while the third has attracted minimal attention to date. Furthermore, it seems that there is little to love in our current understanding of the student experience as the overwhelming focus is on dysfunctions in and around UK higher education. Applying the tenets of a Post-Critical Pedagogy does suggest that widening our scope would allow for an extension of the literature and a more positive appreciation of the UK student experience. At the same time, though, there may be some aspects of the Manifesto that require minor revisions.Post-critical perspectives on higher education. Retrieving the educational in the university.Series: Debating Higher Education. Springer. Pre-print version.2 result of their studies, and that their education in turn has a cumulative (positive) effect on how they understand and interact with the world they live in. The world they live in, as students, is not posited as outside the pedagogical experience, but rather around and entwined with it. If post-criticality is above all else about love for the world, what is there that we can love in our current understanding of the contemporary student experience?The current backdrop to the question of the student experience is well-documented in the academic literature on higher education, which has largely been dominated by discussions and analyses of a steady marketisation and privatisation of the sector in many countries. The attention given to this by scholars is understandable as university life, worldwide, has become more closely tethered to the 'hegemonic imaginary' (Jessop 2008) of the neoliberal knowledge economy. This imaginary is associated with varied but concomitant forms of governance through audit and competition, and a steady replacement of state support for universities with personal and private sector funding.The extent to which the precepts of the knowledge economy are hegemonic -i.e. widely accepted -is debatable given the volume of critical academic and student responses to it (Budd 2017b), but it is clear that it has had a significant impact on universities on a global scale. It has wide-ranging effects on the currents of know...

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Eliciting the institutional myth: exploring the ethos of ‘the university’ in Germany and England

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Tensões e reconfigurações no Ensino Superior: o modelo neoliberal chileno em debate

Tensões e reconfigurações no Ensino Superior: o modelo neoliberal chileno em debate

Measuring the impact of corporate governance on non-financial reporting in the top HEIs worldwide

Looking for Love in the Student Experience

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