Books by Gaby Franger-Huhle
University and Society. Interdependencies and Exchange, 2019
We have to "review and reconsider the interchange of value between university and society; that i... more We have to "review and reconsider the interchange of value between university and society; that is to say, we need to rethink the social relevance of universities." (Escrigas [2008], in Escrigas et al. 2014: xxxiii) This volume examines questions about the relations between university and society increasingly familiar in many central academic locations, and sets them in scenes and places in which new sets of participants are actively engaged. In this way, its authors take widely accepted theories and practices, placing them under new light. What role can the university play in the broader community or society in which it is embedded? Is it embedded at all? Or must it remain segregated into the halls of science and knowledge which tower above the community? This book explores multifarious relations, connections, and mutual influences and exchanges between university and society from different perspectives, giving different understandings to the role of universities, and the variety of approaches undertaken with its support. Distinct perspectives typify the expectations and claims that confront the university from the viewpoint of the wider society, and from that of the narrower community, which both create a range of different mandates. And of course university faculty members and administrators hold their own views, expectations and claims toward the community. Whether these viewpoints are compatible and, if not, how they might be reconciled within our increasingly competitive and complex world are surely questions worth addressing. The contributors to this book are engaged with different universities from all over the world-though limited mostly to the Northern Hemisphere and Australia; and concomitantly they reveal different experiences. Nevertheless, our set of entirely white, middle-class authors do not work and write from bases in elite universities, but rather provide critical reflections and reports on efforts, sometimes successful and sometimes not, to bring about change in the canonic discourse or power-biased attitudes in their countries or localities. Central and Eastern as well as Southern European universities and their academics regularly seek legitimacy and value-driven ways of challenging and fighting the neoliberalism and neo-conservativism so dominant in our time. American and Australian universities and academics more typically attempt to understand the rules and mechanisms of the process of engaging with community and try to provide intelligible and constructive interpretations of their
Papers by Gaby Franger-Huhle
University and Society, 2019
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Books by Gaby Franger-Huhle
Papers by Gaby Franger-Huhle