Authority lost and gained : the changing coordination and control of academic work

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  • Peter Scott
چکیده

1. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you this morning. My title is ‘Authority Lost and Gained: the changing coordination and control of academic work’. What it attempts to express is a sense of balance. There have been gains as well as losses in terms of academic authority – a necessary corrective, I believe, to the standard discourse of decline-and-fall, of the irresistible rise of managerial power in modern higher education systems and the inevitable, and corresponding, erosion of the authority and autonomy of individual teachers and researchers. My sub-title is equally important: although there have indeed been important changes (and shifts) in how academic work is managed and controlled, these changes reflect deeper changes in the constitution of knowledge and of the situation of mass higher education systems in modern society rather than one-dimensional discourse of ‘loss’. So – although I am not a supporter of managerial (and corporate) power in universities and I am (I hope) an unqualified advocate of academic freedom, I propose to offer a more nuanced account of what has been happening to academic authority.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012