Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict

IF 2.4 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Nick Turnbull, Shaun Wilson, Greg Agoston
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The transformation of higher education provision by neoliberal values has been well documented. However, recent criticisms and even attacks upon higher education indicate a new politics extending beyond neoliberalism. This article draws on the sociology of conventions to unpick the distinctions at work in these new criticisms of universities. By distinguishing between values based in the market world, industrial world and civic world, we elaborate the political basis of recent value controversies around higher education (HE), reflected in policy and rhetoric. Looking to reject aspects of the neoliberal HE model, some critics have sought to revalue higher education upon productivist values, attacking universities for failing to generate ‘use’ value for students and society. Populist actors have launched stronger criticisms, aiming to revalue higher education on nationalistic and traditional values. This has generated the devaluation of higher education in national public spheres. As higher education has expanded globally, this new politics emerges from conflicts within and between conservative and liberal elites. Trends in Hungary and Brazil indicate the successes and failures of populist attacks on universities. Trends in the United Kingdom and Australia reflect productivist revaluations of market-based HE. Elite revaluation and devaluation is producing an emerging new global politics of HE.
超越新自由主义的高等教育价值重估与贬值:冲突领域中的精英主义、生产主义和民粹主义政策与言论
新自由主义价值观对高等教育办学的改造已屡见报端。然而,最近对高等教育的批评甚至攻击表明,一种新的政治正在超越新自由主义。本文借鉴了传统社会学的观点,以揭示这些对大学的新批评中的区别。通过区分基于市场世界、工业世界和公民世界的价值观,我们阐述了近期围绕高等教育(HE)的价值观争议的政治基础,这些争议反映在政策和言论中。为了反对新自由主义高等教育模式的某些方面,一些批评家试图根据生产主义价值观对高等教育进行重新估值,抨击大学未能为学生和社会创造 "使用 "价值。民粹主义者提出了更强烈的批评,旨在以民族主义和传统价值观为基础重估高等教育的价值。这导致了高等教育在国家公共领域的贬值。随着高等教育在全球的扩展,这种新的政治产生于保守派和自由派精英内部和之间的冲突。匈牙利和巴西的趋势表明了民粹主义攻击大学的成败。英国和澳大利亚的趋势反映了生产主义对以市场为基础的高等教育的重新估价。精英重估和贬值正在产生一种新的全球高等教育政治。
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European Educational Research Journal
European Educational Research Journal EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
4.30
自引率
10.50%
发文量
33
期刊介绍: The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) is a scientific journal interested in the changing landscape of education research across Europe. Education research increasingly crosses the borders of the national through its subjects of study, scholarly collaborations and references. The EERJ publishes education research papers and special issues which include a reflection on how the European context and other related global or regional dynamics shape their educational research topics. The European Educational Research Journal publishes double-blind peer-reviewed papers in special issues and as individual articles. The EERJ reviews submitted papers on the basis of the quality of their argument, the contemporary nature of their work, and the level of ''speaking'' to the European audience. Policy-makers, administrators and practitioners with an interest in European issues are now invited to subscribe. The EERJ publishes peer reviewed articles, essay reviews and research reports (forms of research intelligence across Europe)
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