Good University What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change
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Biographical note
Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. She is a highly-cited researcher in social science and an experienced teacher who has worked in universities around the world. She remains an active trade unionist and advocate for workers’ rights, student autonomy and educational reform. Her books include Masculinities (2005), Southern Theory (2007) and Gender: In World Perspective (2015).In The Good University Raewyn Connell provides a powerful and expansive critique of the current state of higher education. This lucid and important book makes clear that the global state of higher education is at a crossroads.
LSE Review of Books
A uniquely revealing global account of the actual work done by university workers, and a searing critique of the false promises made by current ideologies. A must read for those interested in progressive university reform.
D.W. Livingstone, author of The Education-Jobs Gap
Raewyn Connell’s case for the good university will resonate with the people who do the work to make good education and research happen, who care about the students and their colleagues and know their responsibility to the public who rightly expect so much of our universities. Her good university values the labour of all staff with decent, secure jobs.
Jeannie Rea, National Tertiary Education Union
One victim of Western modernity and corporate ambition is the university. Raewyn Connell convincingly demonstrates what many are sensing and others are ignoring: that knowledge for peace and joy is being overruled by competing knowledges of war and death.
Walter Mignolo, Duke University