The dynamics of ‘market-making’ in higher education

Komljenovic, Janja and Robertson, Susan L. (2016) The dynamics of ‘market-making’ in higher education. Journal of Education Policy, 31 (5). pp. 622-636. ISSN 0268-0939

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Abstract

This paper examines what to some is a well-worked furrow; the processes and outcomes involved in what is typically referred to as ‘marketization’ in the higher education sector. We do this through a case study of Newton University, where we reveal a rapid proliferation of market exchanges involving the administrative division of the university with the wider world. Our account of this process of ‘market making’ is developed in two (dialectically related) moves. First, we identify a range of market exchanges that have emerged in the context of wider ideological and political changes in the governance of higher education to make it a more globally competitive producer of knowledge, and a services sector. Second, we explore the ways in which making markets involve a considerable amount of microwork, such as the deployment of a range of framings, and socio-technical tools. Taken together, these market-making processes are recalibrating and remaking the structures, social relations and subjectivities, within and beyond the university and in turn reconstituting the university and the higher education sector.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Education Policy
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? MARKETSMARKET-MAKINGHIGHER EDUCATIONUNIVERSITYCALLON AND ÇALışKANBERNDT AND BOECKLEREDUCATION ??
ID Code:
82102
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Deposited On:
10 Oct 2016 12:54
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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17 Sep 2023 01:57