(Critical Interventions)
by Ourania Filippakou (Author)
Building
on Ourania Filippakou’s previous work on higher education in the fields
of governance, neoliberalism, university entrepreneurialism and
marketization, institutional and social stratification, Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe contributes
to the debate on higher education from a critical policy perspective.
Introducing new ideas on the relationships between the alleged pursuit
of excellence in higher education and the ways in which both deploys and
reflects how power is wielded in Europe and other neoliberal capitalist
societies. The term "legitimation" is here coined to emphasize how new
coercive strategies, political decisions, and management styles have
emerged in the age of excellence in higher education. The book concludes
with a more personal reflection on the neutrality of higher education
and its illusory promises.
