TY - BOOK ID - 61222736 TI - Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective AU - Wright, Susan. AU - Carney, Stephen. AU - Krejsler, John Benedicto. AU - Nielsen, Gritt Bykærholm. AU - Williams Ørberg, Jakob. PY - 2019 SN - 9402419217 9402419195 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Universities and colleges KW - Colleges KW - Degree-granting institutions KW - Higher education institutions KW - Higher education providers KW - Institutions of higher education KW - Postsecondary institutions KW - Public institutions KW - Schools KW - Education, Higher KW - Higher education. KW - Educational policy. KW - Education and state. KW - International education . KW - Comparative education. KW - School management and organization. KW - School administration. KW - Higher Education. KW - Educational Policy and Politics. KW - International and Comparative Education. KW - Administration, Organization and Leadership. KW - Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. KW - Education KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - Education, Comparative KW - Global education KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - Internationalism KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Administration, Educational KW - Educational administration KW - Inspection of schools KW - Operation policies, School KW - Policies, School operation KW - School administration KW - School inspection KW - School operation policies KW - School organization KW - Management KW - Organization KW - Government policy KW - History KW - Inspection KW - Management and organization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61222736 AB - This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe’s most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective. It incorporates voices positioned across university and policy-making hierarchies in its analysis of how Danish universities have been transformed. To do this, the book continually juxtaposes two meanings of ‘enactment’: a top-down view based on laws and institutional power, and a bottom-up view of multiple actors shaping their institution in day-to-day life and in actively contested changes. By conceiving of the university as ‘enacted’ in both ways at once, the book explores how and why the university comes to be imagined and instantiated in new ways. The book traces the arguments for reform through a two-decade long, dynamic struggle between international forums and national industrial, political and academic interests over the definition of the university. It discusses which ideas finally became dominant and how this happened. It looks at government reforms from 2003 onwards, and, by means of notable ‘telling moments’, explains how the governance and management of the university were transformed. It examines how academics found room to manoeuvre between contesting discourses that affect their identity and work. Finally, it shows how students engaged with new versions of historical debates about their participation in shaping their own education, their institution and society. ER -