‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective

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‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective

This article considers the role of experiments in learning in movements to democratise higher education ‘under the rule of capital’ (Gutierrez, Navarro and Linsalata 2017). It focuses on the emergence of a new generation of ‘free universities’ in the United Kingdom, situating these in a historical t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Amsler, Sarah
Format:	Article
Published:	Berghahn Journals 2017
Subjects:	autonomous education; educational experimentation; free universities; neoliberalism; public higher education
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45573/

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