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Menedzserizmus-kritika az angol felsőoktatásban
A Critique of Managerialism in English Higher Education

Author(s): Gergely Kováts
Subject(s): Education, Geography, Regional studies, Higher Education , Evaluation research, Management and complex organizations
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: education; English higher education; managerialism; professionalization;

Summary/Abstract: This paper summarizes critiques of managerialism in the English higher education sector. Managerialism is interpreted as a process of professionalization that is characterised by a particular ideology as well as seeking distinctive organisational forms and control technologies (Reed 2001). Such characteristics are looked at via the following: 1) instrumental way of thinking, 2) naturalisation, commodification and the transformative nature of managerialism, and 3) deprofessionalisation, proletarisation and alienation. In the last part of the article, conditions preventing managerialism from taking over the whole of the higher education sector are examined.

  • Issue Year: 20/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 482-497
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian