TY - JOUR
T1 - A Slow Reading [of] Notes and Some Possibilities of Liberated, Open, Becoming Universities
AU - Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka
AU - Löytönen, Teija
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - University similar to church is one of the oldest institutions passing and preserving cultural heritage. In addition, universities are active societal contributors and influential communal contingences in our contemporary societies. However, recently increasing numbers of these traditional and historical functions of universities have become hijacked by neoliberal practices and values. Oftentimes, alternatives to the restructured and liberated universities are considered as unwanted exceptions. Potential higher education anomalies cannot be fully materialized or practiced due to the limited resources, paralyzing normative practices, market-driven beliefs, and capitalistic values of dominant higher education systems and structures. Rather than continuing these discourses, in this article, we will take a step forward, discuss, dream, and image diverse possibilities or universities to come. Thus, we will focus on imagining, pondering alternatives, and writing notes (to be read slowly) about fragile futures of liberated, open, and becoming universities.
AB - University similar to church is one of the oldest institutions passing and preserving cultural heritage. In addition, universities are active societal contributors and influential communal contingences in our contemporary societies. However, recently increasing numbers of these traditional and historical functions of universities have become hijacked by neoliberal practices and values. Oftentimes, alternatives to the restructured and liberated universities are considered as unwanted exceptions. Potential higher education anomalies cannot be fully materialized or practiced due to the limited resources, paralyzing normative practices, market-driven beliefs, and capitalistic values of dominant higher education systems and structures. Rather than continuing these discourses, in this article, we will take a step forward, discuss, dream, and image diverse possibilities or universities to come. Thus, we will focus on imagining, pondering alternatives, and writing notes (to be read slowly) about fragile futures of liberated, open, and becoming universities.
KW - becoming university
KW - decolonizing the academy
KW - fragile
KW - futures
KW - notes
KW - pedagogy
KW - slow reading
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U2 - 10.1177/1532708616673657
DO - 10.1177/1532708616673657
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85019626535
SN - 1532-7086
VL - 17
SP - 294
EP - 303
JO - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
JF - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
IS - 3
ER -