Partnership as student power: democracy and governance in a neoliberal university
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2020
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Cornelius Bell, A.
Bell, P.A.
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Radical Teacher, 2020; 118(118):21-30
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In the wake of Flinders University’s radical organisational restructure, we reflect on what guided the decisions and process, namely a neoliberal understanding and framing of higher education and corporal, top-down managerial systems. We explore this current climate of the neoliberal university and argue that student power is once again needed to shift the conception of university ‘success’ back into a democratic form of governance. However, rather than student power constituting of a traditional 1970s form of picketing protests, we argue that a model of working within current structures is prudent. Partnership with students initiatives provide unexpected hope for student participation in rebuilding the conception of the democratic university as a public good, but also highlight the relevance of student ‘activism’ in 2019.
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Copyright 2020 The author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.