- Title
- Changing practices, changing values?: a Bernsteinian analysis of knowledge production and knowledge exchange in two UK universities
- Creator
- Little, Brenda, Abbas, Andrea, Singh, Mala
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66934
- Identifier
- vital:29002
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7369-0_8
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- Bernstein’s concept of classification and framing links notions of knowledge, democracy and social justice, providing a perspective from which to address critical questions of what knowledge is produced, who has access to it, and how knowledge is distributed. Bernstein’s conceptual framework is used to inform an analysis of national policies steering knowledge production and knowledge transfer in the UK, and the changing practices and values associated with knowledge production and knowledge transfer in two UK institutional case study universities. The analysis reveals how reputational and financial consequences of the formal assessment of research quality interacts with the institutional and disciplinary contexts of research units to differently shape what knowledge is valued and produced, and with whom it is shared. Five discursive areas, each involving a complex set of classifications (power) and framings (control) are identified, namely: the national research assessment framework; the economic value of research; discourses of social and academic values; academic freedoms; and mixed-discipline research and the interdisciplinary nature of real world problems. Though competing and sometimes contradictory values seem to underlie academics’ knowledge work, it seems that the strong framing for knowledge production and knowledge exchange provided by national policies steers staff efforts towards economised codes of knowledge. The conclusion suggests that such a strong steer does not value social transformation in all its diverse non-economistic dimensions and limits universities’ potential to transform societies to further social justice.
- Format
- 21 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer, Dordrecht
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Re-becoming Universities?. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, Little B., Abbas A., Singh M. (2016) Changing Practices, Changing Values?: A Bernsteinian Analysis of Knowledge Production and Knowledge Exchange in Two UK Universities. In: Hoffman D., Välimaa J. (eds) RE-BECOMING UNIVERSITIES?. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht, Re-becoming Universities?. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective volume 15 number 201 222 2016 978-94-017-7369-0
- Rights
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the National Library of South Africa Copyright Act (http://www.nlsa.ac.za/downloads/Copyright%amp;20Act.pdf)
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