Academic Freedom in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Core Value or Elite Privilege?
Redaktion: Slowey, Maria; Taylor, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book explores the challenges facing universities and individual scholars through an examination of the history and theory underlying the concept of academic freedom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040093825
• Artikelnr.: 72245485

Autorenporträt

Maria Slowey is Emeritus Professor, Higher Education Research Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Florence, Italy, and Glasgow, UK. Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Academic freedom: the issues

1. Introduction. Academic Freedom: core value or elite privilege?

2. Academic freedom and the dilemmas of the modern university

3. 'Free speech', academic freedom, and the Public Sphere: some reflections on principles

Part II: Academic freedom: case studies from British higher education (1945-1990)

4. Academic freedom, universities and the Left: a case study of British university adult education in the early years of the Cold War

5. The university as a contested space: 'no platforming' controversies at British universities, 1968-1990

Part III: Academic freedom: contrasting international experiences

6. Academic freedom under ideological attacks in Mexico

7. Beyond Western ideals: academic freedom, capabilities, and social knowledge

8. Selective academic freedom: the case of Hungary

Part IV: Academic freedom: contemporary themes and concluding reflections

9. Epistemic silences: the academic 'precariat' and academic freedom

10. Interrogating the implications of rankings, open science, and publishing for academic practice and academic freedom

11. Concluding reflections on academic freedom