Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education

Teaching, learning and identities

Liudvika Leišytė, Uwe Wilkesmann, Uwe Wilkesmann, Liudvika Leišytė

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138655348
• eBook ISBN: 9781317437345
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities. By building on organizational studies and higher education studies literatures, Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education offers a unique perspective, presenting empirical evidence from different parts of the world. This edited collection provides a conceptual frame of organizational change in universities in the context of New Public Management reforms and links it to the core activities of teaching and learning.

Split into four main sections:

• University from the organizational perspective,
• Organizing teaching,
• Organizing learning and
• Organizing identities,

this book uses a strong international perspective to provide insights from three continents regarding the major differences in the relationships between the university as an organization and academics.

It contains highly pertinent, scientifically driven case studies on the role and boundaries of managerial behaviour in universities. It supplies evidence-based knowledge on the effectiveness of management behaviour and tools to university managers and higher education policy-makers worldwide. Academics who aspire to institutionalize their successful academic practices in certain university structures will find this book of particular value.

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education will be a vital companion for academic interest in higher education management, transformation of universities, teaching, learning, academic work and identities. Bringing together the study of the organizational transformation in higher education with the study of teaching, learning and academic identity, Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education presents a unique cross-national and cross-regional comparative perspective.

Index

Page numbers in italic refer to figures and tables.

Added to a page number, ‘n’ refers to notes.

academic capitalism 209

academic departments: academics’ perceived distance from 205; cross-departmental linkages 21–2; innovation in 27; structural differentiation 14, 21; subcultures 25

academic development units 217

academic disciplines: as an organizing principle 157; effects on teaching and learning 17–18, see also disciplinary communities; disciplinary culture

academic engagement 164, 226

academic entrepreneurs: hybrid identities 223–40

academic exchange 195–6

academic freedom 236–8

academic identity(ies) 61–2, 211; change and implications for 211; changes in 2, 80, 104, 265; and curricular change 103–4; dominance of the academic logic of governance 60; influence on academic behaviours 243; organizational conditions 5; organizational identity 215–17; as ‘personal principled projects’ 211; as a ‘reflexively organized endeavour’ 207; reluctance to change/reform 243, see also academic promotion system, and academic identity (study)

academic lobby 59

academic logic of governance 56, 58, 60

academic loners 118

academic managers 254

academic networks 94

academic power 209

academic profession 4; competition to join 210; hollowing out of 211; segmentation 210; as threatened by quasi-market logics 59

academic promotion system, and academic identity (study) 243–58; analytical framework 246–9; conclusion 257–8; influence of multiple logics 254–7; institutional logics 250–4; methodology 244–5; policy/policy changes 246, 249–50

‘academic quarter’ institutions 34

academic reform: case study 28–30; China 135, 142; fostering 25–8; organizational culture and 24–5, see also innovation; university transformation

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Series editors’ introduction
• Organizing academic work in higher education: teaching, learning, and identities – an introduction
• I University from the organizational perspective
• II Organizing teaching
• III Organizing learning
• IV Organizing identities
• Conclusion
• Index