Kym Teh | The University of Adelaide (original) (raw)
I am a professional manager, and past teaching academic (law
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This research explores the university across its various elements and dimensions across time but ... more This research explores the university across its various elements and dimensions across time but in particular against a context of the modern university – as Scott (1984) poignantly states, the university is the key knowledge institution of modern society. This exploration particularly focusses on the character and nature of the modern university (its ‘idea’ or notion), the drivers of change, the forces, and the enabling responses and reactions to them by universities. The research is conducted through the lens, perspectives of the university leaders of the three South Australian public universities – leaders who understand the nature of the university, its present, and are charged with influencing its future. Their universities are representative of the Australian higher education system. Through this phenomenological study an understanding is developed of the complex interactions between these dimensions (foundations, forces of change, and enabling reactions to change), the actio...
“To compare the university to the modern corporation, the classical bureaucracy or the imagined c... more “To compare the university to the modern corporation, the classical bureaucracy or the imagined community is, in the minds of many academics, to compare music to money, or literature to town hall legislation. In the end they are thought to be alike in all unimportant aspects.” Simon Marginson and Mark Considine in the ‘Enterprise University’ (2000)…
This research explores the university across its various elements and dimensions across time but ... more This research explores the university across its various elements and dimensions across time but in particular against a context of the modern university – as Scott (1984) poignantly states, the university is the key knowledge institution of modern society. This exploration particularly focusses on the character and nature of the modern university (its ‘idea’ or notion), the drivers of change, the forces, and the enabling responses and reactions to them by universities. The research is conducted through the lens, perspectives of the university leaders of the three South Australian public universities – leaders who understand the nature of the university, its present, and are charged with influencing its future. Their universities are representative of the Australian higher education system. Through this phenomenological study an understanding is developed of the complex interactions between these dimensions (foundations, forces of change, and enabling reactions to change), the actio...
“To compare the university to the modern corporation, the classical bureaucracy or the imagined c... more “To compare the university to the modern corporation, the classical bureaucracy or the imagined community is, in the minds of many academics, to compare music to money, or literature to town hall legislation. In the end they are thought to be alike in all unimportant aspects.” Simon Marginson and Mark Considine in the ‘Enterprise University’ (2000)…