Change in the University: A Result of Travelling Ideas?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Change in the University: A Result of Travelling Ideas?

AU - Bundgaard, Helle

PY - 2015/9/22

Y1 - 2015/9/22

N2 - This article explores the introduction of a “common market” of education, a large-scale institutional reform process that has influenced the organisation of teaching at the University of Copenhagen (KU) since 2009. The “common market” policy, I argue, is a result of intense negotiations between key players, their specific positions, and their interests rather than an example of a “travelling idea” (Czarniawska and Joerges 1996). Ideas travel only if and when someone has a vested interest in them.

AB - This article explores the introduction of a “common market” of education, a large-scale institutional reform process that has influenced the organisation of teaching at the University of Copenhagen (KU) since 2009. The “common market” policy, I argue, is a result of intense negotiations between key players, their specific positions, and their interests rather than an example of a “travelling idea” (Czarniawska and Joerges 1996). Ideas travel only if and when someone has a vested interest in them.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - universitetsreformer

KW - Education

KW - Uddannelse

KW - university reform

KW - change management

KW - Denmark

KW - higher education reform

KW - management of education

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2053-9843

VL - 5

SP - 26

EP - 41

JO - Teaching Anthropology

JF - Teaching Anthropology

IS - 1

ER -