Language and Power in the Secondary English Classroom*

‘… a political, objective, knowledgeable campaign from the far Right was capable of creating not only a terror but a new subjective reality, a veritable mystique which was gradually assuming even a holy resonance.’ Arthur Miller 1958 'For a mass of the people to be led to think coherently about the real, present world … is not a question of introducing from scratch a scientific form of thought into everyone's individual life, but of renovating and making “critical an already existing activity.” Antonio Gramsci 1974     

Collegiality and managerialism: a false dichotomy? Evidence from the higher education literature

Collegiality and managerialism are often portrayed as opposed ideas or practices, with the latter, in particular, either held up as a necessary response to the massification of higher education or portrayed as a betrayal of long-held academic ideals (as supposedly reflected in collegiality). This article explores how collegiality and managerialism have been conceptualized, presented and researched in the higher education literature. It concludes that the two concepts are not as dichotomous as some have argued, and that both have a role in our thinking about the future of higher education.