Universities in the Flux of Time : An Exploration of Time and Temporality in University Life (Paperback)

Contributors Introduction Part 1 Past, Present and Future The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason: Fast Knowledge in the Circuits of Cybernetic Capitalism Michael A Peters 1. University Fashions: On Ideas whose Time has Come Barbara Czarniawska 2. If Time Doesn’t Exist, Why are We Learning about the Past? Paul Gibbs 3. Organizational Devolution: The Old, New and Future American Research Universities in the Age of Privatization John Aubrey Douglass Part 2 Knowledge and Time 4. Innovation as Conformity: Academic Research in the Accelerated University Robert Hassan 5. Conquered by project time? Conflicting　 temporalities in university research Oili-Helena Ylijoki 6.. Different Times: Temporality, Curriculum and Powerful Knowledge Sue Clegg 7. The Time of Reason and the Ecological University Ronald Barnett Part 3 Living with Time 　Discovery and Delivery: Time Schemas and the Bureaucratic University Peter Murphy 8. Competing narratives of time in the managerial university: the contradiction of fast　time and slow time　 Carolina Guzman and Roberto Di Napoli 9. Higher Education and an Ethic of Time Marianna Papastephanou 10. Academic Time and the Time of Academics Angela Brew Coda Bibliography Index