The university, democracy and the public sphere

Holmwood, John

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: Sep 19, 2016
• 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: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/36981
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286
• Copyright Statement: Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/end_user_agreement.pdf
• 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.