Competition, Innovation and Diversity in Higher Education: Dominant Discourses, Paradoxes and Resistance

Autor/in	Dakka, Fadia
Titel	Competition, Innovation and Diversity in Higher Education: Dominant Discourses, Paradoxes and Resistance
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41 (2020) 1, S.80-94 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2019.1668747
Schlagwörter	Role; Neoliberalism; Competition; Knowledge Economy; Higher Education; Universities; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Government School Relationship; Educational Change; Doctoral Dissertations; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Wettkampf; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität; Unternehmungsgeist; Bildungsreform; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Ausland
Abstract	This article explores the powerful yet contradictory role of neoliberalism, its competitive mechanisms and emotional logics. Theoretically, it reviews the shifting state-higher education-market nexus through the lens of a critical cultural political economy paradigm. Conceptually, it closely examines Davies' work on the 'logic of competition' (2014) and Naidoo's idea of 'competition fetish' (2011, 2015, 2018) to expose the material and discursive dispositifs through which nation-states, institutions and individual actors mobilize universities to position themselves in the global knowledge economy. The discussion is informed and supported by empirical evidence drawn from a doctoral project (2013-2014). The article aims to contribute to the extant critique of (higher) education by introducing the paradox of 'polarized convergence' as an instance of differentiation without diversity in the contemporary English university. Such paradox urges the re-visitation and broadening of the idea and practice of the entrepreneurial university to reinvigorate the link between competition, innovation and diversity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01