Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective -  Stephen Carney,  John Benedicto Krejsler,  Gritt Bykaerholm Nielsen,  Susan Wright,  Jakob Williams orberg

Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective (eBook)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2019
XVII, 329 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-94-024-1921-4 (ISBN)
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This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe's most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective. It incorporates voices positioned across university and policy-making hierarchies in its analysis of how Danish universities have been transformed. To do this, the book continually juxtaposes two meanings of 'enactment': a top-down view based on laws and institutional power, and a bottom-up view of multiple actors shaping their institution in day-to-day life and in actively contested changes.  By conceiving of the university as 'enacted' in both ways at once, the book explores how and why the university comes to be imagined and instantiated in new ways.

The book traces the arguments for reform through a two-decade long, dynamic struggle between international forums and national industrial, political and academic interests over the definition of the university. It discusses which ideas finally became dominant and how this happened. It looks at government reforms from 2003 onwards, and, by means of notable 'telling moments', explains how the governance and management of the university were transformed. It examines how academics found room to manoeuvre between contesting discourses that affect their identity and work. Finally, it shows how students engaged with new versions of historical debates about their participation in shaping their own education, their institution and society.


This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe's most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective. It incorporates voices positioned across university and policy-making hierarchies in its analysis of how Danish universities have been transformed. To do this, the book continually juxtaposes two meanings of 'enactment': a top-down view based on laws and institutional power, and a bottom-up view of multiple actors shaping their institution in day-to-day life and in actively contested changes.  By conceiving of the university as 'enacted' in both ways at once, the book explores how and why the university comes to be imagined and instantiated in new ways. The book traces the arguments for reform through a two-decade long, dynamic struggle between international forums and national industrial, political and academic interests over the definition of the university. It discusses which ideas finally became dominant and how this happened. It looks at government reforms from 2003 onwards, and, by means of notable telling moments , explains how the governance and management of the university were transformed. It examines how academics found room to manoeuvre between contesting discourses that affect their identity and work. Finally, it shows how students engaged with new versions of historical debates about their participation in shaping their own education, their institution and society.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.2.2020
Reihe/Serie Higher Education Dynamics
Higher Education Dynamics
Zusatzinfo XVII, 329 p. 13 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte academic room for manoeuvre • Anthropology of policy • Educational leadership • ethnography • figures of the student • International education studies • Knowledge Economy • Organizational change • Strategic Management • student politics and protests • University Management
ISBN-10 94-024-1921-7 / 9402419217
ISBN-13 978-94-024-1921-4 / 9789402419214
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