Movement for a Free Academia—literature database
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Moutsios, S. (2022). The bureaucratisation of the university: The case of Denmark. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(3), 379–391. Added by: Thessa Jensen (28/02/2023, 09:53) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (28/02/2023, 15:51) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Peer reviewed Published DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2097069 BibTeX citation key: Moutsios2022 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Bureaucracy, Universities Creators: Moutsios Collection: Educational Philosophy and Theory |
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"The literature on ‘academic capitalism’ and the ‘entrepreneurial university’ has paid little attention to the role and function of bureaucracy or has considered it something different from the New Public Management (NPM) that has accompanied neoliberal reforms in higher education over the last decades. Following a brief account of the theory and history of bureaucracy, the article examines the institutional, intellectual, pedagogic, and psychic repercussions of the NPM that was introduced in Danish universities in 2003, and turned them into what has been often called ‘knowledge companies’ (vidensvirksomheder). As a result of these reforms, the paper shows, academicians have been transformed into competitive entrepreneurial clerks, striving for assignments and resources, bound by contracts, thoroughly surveilled for their productivity and performance through special software, and entangled in a web of bureaucratic relations which has removed all spaces of logos that distinguish a university, according to its European tradition."
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Does a thorough job of equating NPM (as found in Danish universities and elsewhere) with the ideals and aims of Nazi Germany's state apparatus. Tends towards a psychoanalytical approach.
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |
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p. 383
"Bureaucratic regulation displaces free communication, and imposes on everyone rules, priorities, and performance standards, and it rewards or punishes, accordingly, their successful or unsuccessful accomplishment. Individuals are obliged to execute certain tasks, catch deadlines and quotas, compete with their colleagues for resource allocation and promotion, supersede their moral objections against requests from ‘above’, endure hierarchical derogation, and fear penalisation."
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p. 384
"Aalborg University makes the commitment, for the period 2015/17, to produce 2,700 financially binding cooperation agreements with private, public and international partners, starting from 850 in 2015 and adding 50 every year; to increase its major EU-funded projects from 15 in 2015 to 60 in 2017, half of which should also include business partners; to ensure that 25.7% of all its scientific articles in Web of Science are written with co-authors from industry and other partners from outside of the university world, and that 50.5% scientific articles have co-authors from universities and other partners from outside of Denmark" Source for figures (Development Contract: 2015 - 2017 2015). Development contract: 2015 - 2017. (2015). Denmark: Aalborg University.
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p. 389
"The mere adoption of an administration system that was developed in totalitarian regimes and capitalist enterprises entails the abolition of the university as an institution of free intellectual activity."
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