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le Vaul-Grimwood, Marita; Naik, Vani; Graham, Cameron; Moir, Zack; Smart, Fiona – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2023
This article explores Meyerson and Scully's concept of 'tempered radicalism' (1995) in the context of contemporary academic practice and identity. We report on a collaborative autoethnographic study which addressed the question: 'What does the concept of tempered radicalism mean to us as academics in contemporary higher education?' We explore how…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism
Neoliberal Student Activism in Brazilian Higher Education: The Case of 'Students for Liberty Brasil'
Coggo Cristofoletti, Evandro; Serafim, Milena Pavan – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2022
This article discusses the growth of neoliberal student activism in Brazilian higher education, considering the role of organisations called neoliberal think tanks. The following questions are addressed: why and how do these think tanks operate in the field of higher education? How do they articulate and promote student activism? The study…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Activism, Higher Education, Organizations (Groups)
Mason, Olivia; Megoran, Nick – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2021
The increased reliance of universities on a pool of highly skilled but poorly paid casualised academic labour for teaching and research has emerged as a defining feature of higher education provision under neoliberal New Public Management. Based on seventeen visual timeline interviews with academics in the North East of England, this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Neoliberalism
Muliavka, Viktoriia – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
Despite the diversity of socio-political and economic contexts, educational transformations in post-socialist states have some common trends: orientation towards the 'West' and denial of the socialist past; marketisation of higher education through the introduction and extension of paid services, as well as promotion of competition for public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Commercialization
Trifuljesko, Sonja – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article investigates contemporary attempts to reform the institution of the university according to neoliberal ideological influences and oppositions to them. It employs Doreen Massey's concept of space to focus on relations and separations made in the process. My ethnography of the University of Helsinki's 375th anniversary celebration,…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
Rausch, Anthony – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article examines the impact of contemporary higher education policy at a rural university in Japan. Hirosaki University, although a national university with an attached medical school, is far from the centre of academia in Japan, with a comparatively low ranking among national universities in Japan, and severe budget constraints. The policies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Muñoz-García, Ana Luisa – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article aims to analyse the multiple ways in which the neoliberal regulation of knowledge is negotiated by returning Chilean scholars. The data gathered suggest the construction of knowledge is highly regulated by a principle of intellectual endogamy. Intellectual endogamy is characterised by conservatism, reflected in a lack of diversity in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Peer Evaluation, Faculty Publishing
Gagnon, Jessica – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2018
This article explores the limits of student engagement in higher education in the United Kingdom through the social construction of student activists within media discourses. It scrutinises the impact of dominant neoliberal discourses on the notion of student engagement, constructing certain students as legitimately engaged whilst infantilising…
Descriptors: Activism, Learner Engagement, College Students, Psychological Patterns
Yamada, Naomi C. F. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
In both China and in the United States, policies of "positive discrimination" were originally intended to lessen educational and economic inequalities, and to provide equal opportunities. As with affirmative action in the American context, China's "preferential policies" are broad-reaching, but are best known for taking ethnic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Bal, Ellen; Grassiani, Erella; Kirk, Kate – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
This article is based on our own experiences and that of several of our colleagues teaching social and cultural anthropology in different Dutch institutions for higher learning. We focus in particular on teaching and learning in two small liberal arts and science (LAS) colleges, where anthropology makes up part of the social science curriculum…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Anthropology, Foreign Countries, Core Curriculum
Shore, Cris; Davidson, Miri – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
As an early pioneer of market-led institutional reforms and New Public Management policies, New Zealand arguably has one of the most "neoliberalised" tertiary education sectors in the world. This article reports on a recent academic dispute concerning the attempt by management to introduce a new category of casualised academic employee…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Teacher Administrator Relationship, College Faculty
Viczko, Melody – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2013
Internationalisation of higher education has been overwhelmingly embraced by Canadian universities (Beck 2009). Yet, the decentralised nature of higher education institutions, coupled with the absence of a national governing body with responsibility for higher education, creates an interesting terrain for internationalisation. In this paper, I…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Bartram, Brendan; Terano, Mayumi – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2011
This discussion paper offers a critical examination of the ways in which international students are supported by the variety of systems commonly in place at universities in the U.K. and U.S.A.--two countries that attract large numbers of students from overseas. While acknowledging the difficultly of defining the term "support", the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Students, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries