The Idea of a University: Possibilities and Contestations 9780367542887, 9781032043395, 9781003132035

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Dedication
Introduction
A glance at the chapters in the volume
References
Chapter 1: Some thoughts on university education
References
Chapter 2: On the political economy of educational “reforms”
I Education under the dirigiste regime
II The neoliberal state and education
III The commoditization of education
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Beyond instrumentality: Restoring the spirit of higher education
I Trajectory of a vision
II Fragments, hierarchies and beyond
III Teaching and research: towards a symmetry
IV Praxis of learning
V The crisis and myth of marketization
VI Modes of creative intervention
Restructuring the curriculum
Choosing motivated students
In search of creative teachers
VII Merit as a quality of being
Notes
References
Chapter 4: The idea of a university and its leader: A Gadamerian perspective
Notes
Chapter 5: The challenges that a university confronts in India
Three challenges
Note
References
Chapter 6: UGC and JNU: A tale of exceptions told in two acts
“Inspired by love and guided by knowledge”: parliament imagines a new kind of university
The UGC Act debates and what they taught parliamentarians
UGC in action
Not JNU exceptionalism but an exception
Notes
References
Chapter 7: Higher education and the social sciences in a “smart India”
The global, the cultural national and the neoliberal vision
The global marketplace, communication, and the managerial discourse
The social sciences, public good and democracy
Indian social science, sociology and the spirit of critique
Notes
References
Chapter 8: The idea of university in a princely state: Reflections on the century-old Osmania University, Hyderabad 1
Osmania University – the idea
Expansion of the university
Post-Independence phase
Regional populism
Challenge of privatization
Post-Telangana state formation
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Spaces of contested nationalism
Nation and its principles
Universities as a concept
Implant of the Western university system
Epilogue
Notes
Chapter 10: Universities as gendered institutions
Gender constructs in Gauhati University
Gender in Manipur University
Gender and class discriminations in Manipur University
Bibliography
Chapter 11: The social contract of a public university: Equality, social justice and democracy
Curator of social justice
Education as a public good
Democratization of public universities and knowledge
Public university and critical pedagogy
Demeaning of the social contract
The pervasive state intervention
Destruction of critical thinking
Converting to a banking model of education
Depriving institutional excellence and wellbeing
Neoliberal rationality on public university
Reversing the public good
Marketization and economizing disciplines
Conclusion
References
Index