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Papers by Rosemary Deem
The five papers presented in this monograph deal with the implications of the criticisms of educa... more The five papers presented in this monograph deal with the implications of the criticisms of education and the calls for excellence now evident in a number of industrialized nations. While the issues discussed vary, there is a common concern to understand how current changes in educational policy may affect educational practice. "Women, Educational Reform, and the Process of Change" (Rosemary Deem) considers some of the attempts that have been made in Britain to reduce the amount of sexism in education, to offer better and fairer educational routes and experiences for girls, and to decrease gender inequalities within schools. "In/Forming Schooling: Space/Time/Textuality in Cumpulsory State Provided 'Mass' Schooling Systems" (Phillip Corrigan) raises questions against certain dominant forms of theorizing, investigating, and explaining schooling. "The Political Economy of Text Publishing" (Michael Apple) analyzes the production of curricular materials from the perspective of cultural commodities production and consumption. "Parents, Children, and the State" (Miriam E. David) argues that the New Right government in Britain, much like Cut of the United States, is subtly constructing public economic, social, and educational policies that will radically alter the place of family in the socioeconomic system. "Public Education and the Discourse of Crisis, Power, and Vision" (Henry Giroux) argues that public education in the United States faces a dual crisis: a neo-conservative threat to all public spheres and a failure of radical educational discourse to either illuminate the nature of the existing failures of American education or to provide a theoretical discourse for educational reform. (LP)
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Time & Society, Feb 1, 1996
This article explores the idea that women in western societies, including those with male partner... more This article explores the idea that women in western societies, including those with male partners and/or children, may perceive and use their leisure, including holidays, to disrupt intensified life styles, or to interrupt the domination of clock time and work routines. Recent trends in research and theorizing on women's leisure, including post-structuralist and postmodernist critiques of such leisure, are examined, particularly for their theoretical and methodological sensitivity to, and use of, concepts of time. It is argued that leisure can take many different forms, depending on the social class, paid work, cultural capital and household situation of individual women. However, since much leisure may itself be subject to time intensification, holidays, including those taken at home, may provide a way in which women can `slow down' and escape for a while from hectic lives. Using recent pilot research work, the article also suggests ways in which these ideas could be more extensively researched.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 10, 2022
British Journal of Educational Studies, Jun 1, 1996
... BASSEY, M. (1995) Creating Education Through Research (Newark, Notts/Edinburgh, Kirklington M... more ... BASSEY, M. (1995) Creating Education Through Research (Newark, Notts/Edinburgh, Kirklington Moor Press/British Educational Research Association). BECHER, T., HENKEL, M. et al. (1994) Graduate Education in Britain (London, Jessica Kingsley). ...
Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 1, 2007
This chapter examines the contemporary conditions of academic work and management in UK universit... more This chapter examines the contemporary conditions of academic work and management in UK universities as organizations. In so doing, it also raises questions about the wider purposes of universities in the modern world. Topics discussed include knowledge work and knowledge management, the state of the contemporary academic knowledge worker, difficulties faced by universities, gender divisions between male and female staff in universities, and divisions between universities.
SensePublishers eBooks, 2015
The paper explores the history of recent doctoral training policies in UK social sciences, how un... more The paper explores the history of recent doctoral training policies in UK social sciences, how universities have responded to these and some of the positive and negative unintended consequences of the policies, principally but not exclusively in the period 1992 to 2014, as the gradual move first to specification of disciplinespecific training requirements and department-specific accreditation, then to delegation of the selection of candidates for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) doctoral studentships to universities rather than a national competition and finally to institution-wide or inter-institutional arrangements for doctoral education began.
Work, Employment & Society, May 1, 1990
This paper reviews some of the major features of British sociological research on gender in the f... more This paper reviews some of the major features of British sociological research on gender in the fields of employment, leisure and unpaid work carried out during the nineteen eighties. It examines both the achievements and the failings of such research. These include the development of feminist theory and methodology as well as the documentation of women's differential experiences. The article then traces the connections between the studies done during the eighties and the significant economic, political and social events of the decade, pointing out that not all of those events have been reflected in the research undertaken. Finally the paper considers what some of the major social, economic and political trends of the nineteen nineties might be and suggests some possible future directions for research on work and leisure, including the widening out of gender studies to include other dimensions of inequality.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 1, 2007
This chapter has five purposes. First, to provide a general theoretical orientation and framework... more This chapter has five purposes. First, to provide a general theoretical orientation and framework to analyse changes in UK higher education at the institutional, organizational, and individual academic and manager-academic levels. Second, to provide an analytical narrative about the emergence and subsequent development of ‘New Managerialism’ (NM). Third, to review the discursive strategies and control technologies embodied in different formulations of NM and New Public Management (NPM). Fourth, to identify and assess the endemic contradictions, tensions, and conflicts within and between these discursive strategies and control technologies, as well as their broader implications for longer-term institutional change and organizational innovation. Fifth, to provide an initial interpretation of the process of ‘hybridization’ in public services domains and organizationals, and its wider significance for the development of universities as ‘knowledge-intensive organizations’.
International perspectives on higher education research, Dec 15, 2004
... it is possible to argue that managers in universities, in adopting certain kinds of ideologie... more ... it is possible to argue that managers in universities, in adopting certain kinds of ideologies and discourses around managerialism, are becoming a breed apart from academics, thus shattering the previous collegiality of universities (Parker & Jary, 1994; Dearlove, 1997; Prichard ...
Open University Press eBooks, 1986
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Springer eBooks, 2020
The chapter explores, using a sociological perspective, connections between debates about univers... more The chapter explores, using a sociological perspective, connections between debates about university purposes, changing academic cultures and a high incidence of poor doctoral researcher mental health. Drawing upon Locatelli’s work about education for the public good and Burawoy’s work on public sociology (Burawoy, American Sociological Review 4–28, 2005; Locatelli, Education As a Public and Common Good: Revisiting the Role of the State in a Context of Growing Marketization, Bergamo University, 2017), the chapter looks at how contemporary universities’ conditions and academic work can affect doctoral researchers’ wellbeing. Some suggestions are made about activities to encourage doctoral researchers to interact more closely with civil society and help the public engage with aspects of academic knowledge which can benefit the public good.
Loisir et société, 1992
Abstract The paper reviews gender and leisure in the UK over the past decade and also explores po... more Abstract The paper reviews gender and leisure in the UK over the past decade and also explores possible future directions. Initial work on gender and leisure added women into the existing studies of male leisure but also pointed out how women's experience of leisure differed. This work led rethinking the concept of leisure and the relationship between employment, unpaid work and leisure and saw important methodological developments in qualitative research. There has also been an attempt to analyse the structured nature of male/female relationships (and power within those relationships), whilst still emphasising agency and meaning. The significance of studying gender issues in relation to male leisure has also begun to emerge. Much less explored have been issues of sexuality, physicality, race and ethnicity, the state and the interrelation of production and consumption. The paper concludes by suggesting fresh research topics.
Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2012
Organisation und Pädagogik, 2022
The five papers presented in this monograph deal with the implications of the criticisms of educa... more The five papers presented in this monograph deal with the implications of the criticisms of education and the calls for excellence now evident in a number of industrialized nations. While the issues discussed vary, there is a common concern to understand how current changes in educational policy may affect educational practice. "Women, Educational Reform, and the Process of Change" (Rosemary Deem) considers some of the attempts that have been made in Britain to reduce the amount of sexism in education, to offer better and fairer educational routes and experiences for girls, and to decrease gender inequalities within schools. "In/Forming Schooling: Space/Time/Textuality in Cumpulsory State Provided 'Mass' Schooling Systems" (Phillip Corrigan) raises questions against certain dominant forms of theorizing, investigating, and explaining schooling. "The Political Economy of Text Publishing" (Michael Apple) analyzes the production of curricular materials from the perspective of cultural commodities production and consumption. "Parents, Children, and the State" (Miriam E. David) argues that the New Right government in Britain, much like Cut of the United States, is subtly constructing public economic, social, and educational policies that will radically alter the place of family in the socioeconomic system. "Public Education and the Discourse of Crisis, Power, and Vision" (Henry Giroux) argues that public education in the United States faces a dual crisis: a neo-conservative threat to all public spheres and a failure of radical educational discourse to either illuminate the nature of the existing failures of American education or to provide a theoretical discourse for educational reform. (LP)
An academic directory and search engine.
Time & Society, Feb 1, 1996
This article explores the idea that women in western societies, including those with male partner... more This article explores the idea that women in western societies, including those with male partners and/or children, may perceive and use their leisure, including holidays, to disrupt intensified life styles, or to interrupt the domination of clock time and work routines. Recent trends in research and theorizing on women's leisure, including post-structuralist and postmodernist critiques of such leisure, are examined, particularly for their theoretical and methodological sensitivity to, and use of, concepts of time. It is argued that leisure can take many different forms, depending on the social class, paid work, cultural capital and household situation of individual women. However, since much leisure may itself be subject to time intensification, holidays, including those taken at home, may provide a way in which women can `slow down' and escape for a while from hectic lives. Using recent pilot research work, the article also suggests ways in which these ideas could be more extensively researched.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 10, 2022
British Journal of Educational Studies, Jun 1, 1996
... BASSEY, M. (1995) Creating Education Through Research (Newark, Notts/Edinburgh, Kirklington M... more ... BASSEY, M. (1995) Creating Education Through Research (Newark, Notts/Edinburgh, Kirklington Moor Press/British Educational Research Association). BECHER, T., HENKEL, M. et al. (1994) Graduate Education in Britain (London, Jessica Kingsley). ...
Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 1, 2007
This chapter examines the contemporary conditions of academic work and management in UK universit... more This chapter examines the contemporary conditions of academic work and management in UK universities as organizations. In so doing, it also raises questions about the wider purposes of universities in the modern world. Topics discussed include knowledge work and knowledge management, the state of the contemporary academic knowledge worker, difficulties faced by universities, gender divisions between male and female staff in universities, and divisions between universities.
SensePublishers eBooks, 2015
The paper explores the history of recent doctoral training policies in UK social sciences, how un... more The paper explores the history of recent doctoral training policies in UK social sciences, how universities have responded to these and some of the positive and negative unintended consequences of the policies, principally but not exclusively in the period 1992 to 2014, as the gradual move first to specification of disciplinespecific training requirements and department-specific accreditation, then to delegation of the selection of candidates for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) doctoral studentships to universities rather than a national competition and finally to institution-wide or inter-institutional arrangements for doctoral education began.
Work, Employment & Society, May 1, 1990
This paper reviews some of the major features of British sociological research on gender in the f... more This paper reviews some of the major features of British sociological research on gender in the fields of employment, leisure and unpaid work carried out during the nineteen eighties. It examines both the achievements and the failings of such research. These include the development of feminist theory and methodology as well as the documentation of women's differential experiences. The article then traces the connections between the studies done during the eighties and the significant economic, political and social events of the decade, pointing out that not all of those events have been reflected in the research undertaken. Finally the paper considers what some of the major social, economic and political trends of the nineteen nineties might be and suggests some possible future directions for research on work and leisure, including the widening out of gender studies to include other dimensions of inequality.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 1, 2007
This chapter has five purposes. First, to provide a general theoretical orientation and framework... more This chapter has five purposes. First, to provide a general theoretical orientation and framework to analyse changes in UK higher education at the institutional, organizational, and individual academic and manager-academic levels. Second, to provide an analytical narrative about the emergence and subsequent development of ‘New Managerialism’ (NM). Third, to review the discursive strategies and control technologies embodied in different formulations of NM and New Public Management (NPM). Fourth, to identify and assess the endemic contradictions, tensions, and conflicts within and between these discursive strategies and control technologies, as well as their broader implications for longer-term institutional change and organizational innovation. Fifth, to provide an initial interpretation of the process of ‘hybridization’ in public services domains and organizationals, and its wider significance for the development of universities as ‘knowledge-intensive organizations’.
International perspectives on higher education research, Dec 15, 2004
... it is possible to argue that managers in universities, in adopting certain kinds of ideologie... more ... it is possible to argue that managers in universities, in adopting certain kinds of ideologies and discourses around managerialism, are becoming a breed apart from academics, thus shattering the previous collegiality of universities (Parker & Jary, 1994; Dearlove, 1997; Prichard ...
Open University Press eBooks, 1986
An academic directory and search engine.
Springer eBooks, 2020
The chapter explores, using a sociological perspective, connections between debates about univers... more The chapter explores, using a sociological perspective, connections between debates about university purposes, changing academic cultures and a high incidence of poor doctoral researcher mental health. Drawing upon Locatelli’s work about education for the public good and Burawoy’s work on public sociology (Burawoy, American Sociological Review 4–28, 2005; Locatelli, Education As a Public and Common Good: Revisiting the Role of the State in a Context of Growing Marketization, Bergamo University, 2017), the chapter looks at how contemporary universities’ conditions and academic work can affect doctoral researchers’ wellbeing. Some suggestions are made about activities to encourage doctoral researchers to interact more closely with civil society and help the public engage with aspects of academic knowledge which can benefit the public good.
Loisir et société, 1992
Abstract The paper reviews gender and leisure in the UK over the past decade and also explores po... more Abstract The paper reviews gender and leisure in the UK over the past decade and also explores possible future directions. Initial work on gender and leisure added women into the existing studies of male leisure but also pointed out how women's experience of leisure differed. This work led rethinking the concept of leisure and the relationship between employment, unpaid work and leisure and saw important methodological developments in qualitative research. There has also been an attempt to analyse the structured nature of male/female relationships (and power within those relationships), whilst still emphasising agency and meaning. The significance of studying gender issues in relation to male leisure has also begun to emerge. Much less explored have been issues of sexuality, physicality, race and ethnicity, the state and the interrelation of production and consumption. The paper concludes by suggesting fresh research topics.
Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2012
Organisation und Pädagogik, 2022