Future of University Education

Michał Izak is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Lincoln, UK.  Monika Kostera is Professor Ordinaria and Chair of Management at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Professor and Chair in Management at Durham University, UK.  Michał Zawadzki works in the Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

• Introduction.- PART I. Dissecting the Status Quo.- Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?; Carl Rhodes.- The University of the Common: Beyond the Contradictions of Higher Education Subsumed under Capital; Krystian Szadkowski.- ‘The Last in the Food Chain’: Dignity of Polish Junior Academics and Doctoral Candidates in the Face of Performance Management; Michał Zawadzki.- The Culture of Control in the Contemporary University; Łukasz Sułkowski.- PART II. University in Context.- Living in a World of Foam: Global Ideas, Bubbles, Institutions and the Fairy Tale of Business Education; Carmelo Mazza & Paolo Quattrone.- The Future of the University? The Voice of Young Polish Scholars; Anna M. Kola & Krzysztof Leja.- University as a Terminal: Socio-Material Infrastructure for Post-Neoliberal Society; Krzysztof Nawratek.- PART III. Teaching and Research.- McLearning andthe So-Called “Knowledge Society”: An Essay; Roy Jacques.- Neoliberalism’s War against Higher Education and the Role of Public Intellectuals; Henry A. Giroux.- Re-imagining Business Schools of the Future as Places of Theorizing; Hugo Gaggiotti, Peter Simpson & Svetlana Cicmil.- Re-integrating the Professional Learner: The Complementarity of Teaching and Research in Academic Life; David Sims.- PART IV. Into the Future.- Escape from the Neoliberal Higher Education Prison: A Proposal for a New Digital Communist University; Roger Hallam.- A Curious and Collaborative Future; Todd Hannula.- Speculations on University Futures in 2025: Corporate Cloning, Intellectual Underground, and a New Critical Awareness; George Cairns.- 2021: A Campus Odyssey; Monika Kostera.- Anti-Coda.-