Forwarded on behalf of George Cheney george.cheney@austin.utexas.edu.
What are we to do with Higher Education?
A call for papers.
On the back of the recent financial crisis Western Governments have redoubled efforts to shift the funding of higher education further from taxpayers to students. In some locations this has fueled fierce opposition. This shift is likely to radically alter student enrolment patterns, academic work, and the nature of universities. How might critically inclined scholars respond and what can the critical study of organization and organizing contribute?
The editors of Organization are seeking short, provocative papers (4000 words in length at most) that advance actionable responses to the current challenges facing higher education. Under the title 'What is to be done with . . .' papers should, in the first instance, address one of the following topics: 'universities', 'students', 'journals', 'this knowledge of organizing' and 'ourselves'? For example, papers might propose a manifesto for a radical restructuring of universities, or set out ways in which popular resistance to current changes might be augmented. Papers might propose critical pedagogies, rethink student and academic unionism or sketch the structure of non-capitalist academic publishing. Authors are also invited to explore non-conventional forms of presentation or polemic in their papers. Academic modes of journal publication may be treated as part of the problem, and we are placing no restrictions on what new forms of education and knowledge might look like.
Papers will be reviewed by members of Organization's editorial board and published in the journal's 'Speaking Out' section. Submissions should be submitted electronically via SageTrack which can be accessed through Organization's website at http://org.sagepub.com/.
* What are we to do with universities (by the end of April 2011)
* What are we to do with students (by the end of June 2011)
* What are we to do with journals (by the end of August 2011)
* What are we to do with this knowledge of organizing' (by the end of October 2011)
* What are we do with ourselves? (by the end of December 2011)
Enquiries concerning the suitability of particular ideas should be emailed to C.Prichard@massey.ac.nz or organization@le.ac.uk.
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