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The university, democracy and the public sphere

Holmwood, John

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John Holmwood



Abstract

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article takes a historical approach to the rise and fall of the public university, relating its fate to specific developments in public policy. Particular attention will be paid to the United Kingdom since it has developed an explicit drive towards the marketization of higher education in the context of an earlier commitment to public higher education, although the latter was initially first developed in the United States. Both countries are typically characterized as liberal policy regimes and therefore the article considers how wider social structures are implicated in recent changes to higher education. In particular, the article addresses how the functions of the university and its corporate form are being transformed and relates this to wider developments in the nature of the corporation and the relation between business and citizenship (or market and democracy).

Citation

Holmwood, J. (2017). The university, democracy and the public sphere. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(7), 927-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 1, 2016
Online Publication Date Sep 1, 2016
Publication Date Oct 3, 2017
Deposit Date Sep 19, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal British Journal of Sociology of Education
Print ISSN 0142-5692
Electronic ISSN 1465-3346
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 38
Issue 7
Pages 927-942
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286
Keywords citizenship, corporation, markets, neo-liberalism, professions, and social rights
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/802939
Publisher URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286
Additional Information This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal of Sociology of Education on 01/09/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286.

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