Arena Journal articles from March 2002

Arena Journal archives from March 2002

Introduction.(One)(American academics evaluation)
March 22, 2002... After the events of 11 September the American Council of Trustees and Alumni--a US-based conservative think-tank--commissioned a report into the influence of American academics on the cultural life of the nation. Entitled 'Defending...

Universities and postmodernism: the green paper and some responses.(Part one: when the earth moved: the 1980s revisited)
March 22, 2002... It has been noted in the recent debate about the Green Paper on Higher Education that it enjoys a surprising degree of support by vice-chancellors of Australian universities despite its failure to address issues of principle: it is...

Thinking otherwise deconstruction in the University.(Part one: when the earth moved: the 1980s revisited)
March 22, 2002... In the May of 1840 Thomas Carlyle delivered a series of six lectures under the general title, 'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History'. * Taken together, these lectures provide us with what is perhaps the nineteenth century's most...

The University and after?(Part one: when the earth moved: the 1980s revisited)(higher education)
March 22, 2002... One of the most interesting aspects of the reception of Higher Education: a Policy Discussion Paper circulated during December 1987 by the Hon. J. S. Dawkins, Minister for Employment, Education and Training, was the absence of any immediate and...

Academic unions: conferring with Dawkins.(Part one: when the earth moved: the 1980s revisited)
March 22, 2002... Twenty-five years ago when the Martin Report laid the basis for an expanded system of higher education in Australia, the academic unions drew their limited strength from the relatively small number of institutions to which they were, in the...

'Funny you should ask for that': higher education as a market.(Part two: perspectives on the university today)
March 22, 2002... In the early 1970s I went to the United Kingdom to pursue postgraduate studies. My time at Cambridge was happier than that of Manning Clark at Oxford in the 1930s, but there was one source of minor irritation. The local shopkeepers exhibited a...

The university: is it finished?(Part two: perspectives on the university today)(University of Melbourne)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... 'The University: Is it Finished?' Is this an hysterical question? Quite a few people, I suspect, will think it is, and I am sure that many will think it hyperbole, intentionally provocative. To show that it is not, I will describe two quite...

Towards a politics of the Enterprise University.(Part two: perspectives on the university today)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... I. Starting Points The Enterprise University is the archetypal university of the time. This article analyses the Enterprise University as a political formation. In doing so, it draws its methods from political economy and social theory....

The University in the knowledge economy.(Part two: perspectives on the university today)
March 22, 2002... We live in a social universe in which the formation, circulation, and utilization of knowledge presents a fundamental problem. If the accumulation of capital has been an essential feature of our society, the accumulation of knowledge has not...

The University and its metamorphoses.(Part two: perspectives on the university today)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Consider the metamorphoses that one man may go through in one day as he moves from one mode of sociality to another--family man, speck of crowd dust, functionary in the organization, friend. These are not simply different roles: each is a whole...

Abstracting knowledge formation: a report on academia and publishing.(Part three: the university and global restructuring: the scholars meet the market)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Considered across the long reach of history, it is evident that the dominant formation of knowledge is becoming more abstract. More recently, this process has been super-charged by a changing culture of inquiry that puts a hyper-intensified...

Post-Intellectuality? Universities and the knowledge industry.(Part three: the university and global restructuring: the scholars meet the market)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Introduction While 'knowledge' is regarded as the twenty-first century commodity and the saviour of economies, nations, and communities alike, universities, once considered the prime institutional sites of knowledge, are in a state of...

Perspectives on the crisis of the university.(Part three: the university and global restructuring: the scholars meet the market)
March 22, 2002... Why Academics Don't Resist The folklore of the academy as an institution of independent values that, where challenged, can generate significant political resistance is no doubt overstated. In key respects it is also misleading. Yet it is...

The idea of the intellectual and after.(Part three: the university and global restructuring: the scholars meet the market)
March 22, 2002... Overview This essay outlines an unfamiliar approach to the crisis of the modern university and its changing relation to society. It refers to representative scholars who assume a key role for the humanities in framing the overall life of...