Beschreibung:
This volume uses vulnerability theory to explore how the organisation of the teaching and research activities of universities impact the resilience of academics and also how these activities themselves are impacted by contemporary developments in universities and educational policy.
Introduction 1. Vulnerability theory and higher education 2. Undermining resilience: how the modern UK university manufactures heightened vulnerability in legal academics and what is to be done 3. Rethinking the neoliberal university: embracing vulnerability in English law schools? 4. Vulnerability, the future of the criminal defence profession, and the implications for teaching and learning 5. Vulnerability theory as a tool against a banking model of legal education 6. The positive and negative roles of grant funding as mechanisms for societal transformation and the development of community resilience 7. The university's fragile role in fostering societal resilience by facilitating the development of community-engaged professionalism