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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Academic resistance to the neoliberal university |
Author: | Heath, M. Burdon, P. |
Citation: | Legal Education Review, 2013; 23(2):379-401 |
Publisher: | Centre for Legal Education |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 1033-2839 1839-3713 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Mary Heath and Peter Burdon |
Abstract: | Our paper seeks to begin a conversation about how legal academics might work collaboratively to resist neoliberal reforms in legal education. We begin by considering the existing literature about how academics have responded to recent efforts to corporatize university education. This literature reveals a great level of despondency and despair. Most acts of resistance are either individual or passive. Following this, we put forward as alternative conceptualisation of the academic – the academic activist. We consider whether this conceptualisation might offer a place from which resistance can emerge. Finally, we consider strategies that might be adopted by legal academics who wish to contest neoliberalism within the law school and the university. Given the evidence of academic despair and disempowerment, we propose a range of strategies which are both active and passive and range from the individual to the collaborative. |
Keywords: | Legal Education Neoliberalism Australian Universities Resistance |
Published version: | http://www.ler.edu.au/Volume%2023/Heath%20and%20Burden%20Abstract.pdf |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Law publications |
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