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Funding Re/De/Form in Higher Education

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In trying to navigate the politics and policy of difference and contemporary school reform, we have experienced how competition for funding has become a policy practice that is re/de/forming higher education. Competition for funding knowledge production is never simply a meritocratic or linear activity but a political process.

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Daza, S., Subreenduth, S., Rhee, JE., Proctor, M. (2015). Funding Re/De/Form in Higher Education. In: Sturges, K.M. (eds) Neoliberalizing Educational Reform. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-977-7_7

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