Davydd J. Greenwood is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology Emeritus (Cornell University, USA). He was named Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1996 and Académico numerario of the Academia de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de Castilla-La Mancha. His work centers on action research and socio-ecological sustainability, political economy, ethnic conflict, community and regional development, and neo-liberal reforms of higher education. His ethnographic work has focused on the Spanish Basque Country, Spain’s La Mancha region, and higher education institutions in the US and Europe. Greenwood is the author/co-author of 9 books and scores of articles. Since the early 1980’s he has focused on the relationships between action research and higher education reform, publishing extensively on this subject. He currently participates in an international network to create democratically-organized public universities. He is the co-author with Morten Levin of the book, Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy: Action Research in Higher Education (Berghahn, 2016). He also served as Chair of the Biology and Society Program, as Director of the Institute for European Studies, and as the John S. Knight Professor and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, a total of 19 years in academic administrative positions. He chaired the American Council on Education Taskforce on the Re-authorization of Title VI of the Higher Education Act (international education) and as Vice-president and President of the Association of International Education Administrators.
The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities an... more The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Mondragon University on its new urban campus of Bilbao AS Fabrik. In a time of increasing urbanisation, universities must reflect on their relationship to surrounding cities and regions and develop ways to incorporate the urban and regional setting in their educational offerings. This BA shows the value of a transdisciplinary Action Research approach in facing complex social challenges and contributing to innovative social transformations in the city and region. The new campus also marks the beginning of an internal university process to develop mutual knowledge and greater permeability between different degree programmes in pursuit of a new organisational culture and practice that moves beyond narrow disciplinary models.
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2024
The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities an... more The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Mondragon University on its new urban campus of Bilbao AS Fabrik. In a time of increasing urbanisation, universities must reflect on their relationship to surrounding cities and regions and develop ways to incorporate the urban and regional setting in their educational offerings. This BA shows the value of a transdisciplinary Action Research approach in facing complex social challenges and contributing to innovative social transformations in the city and region. The new campus also marks the beginning of an internal university process to develop mutual knowledge and greater permeability between different degree programmes in pursuit of a new organisational culture and practice that moves beyond narrow disciplinary models.
This is the 5th edition of Stringer’s well-known text, co-authored this time with Alfredo Ortiz A... more This is the 5th edition of Stringer’s well-known text, co-authored this time with Alfredo Ortiz Aragon, a collaboration that adds dimensions and locations not found in earlier editions. The book co...
Understanding how action research can be practiced, taught, and learned in contemporary universit... more Understanding how action research can be practiced, taught, and learned in contemporary universities requires understanding the dominant structures that organize higher education in the 21st century. This article presents the neo-liberal and Taylorist structures affecting higher education and then places the practice and study of action research in this context to outline ways action research could contribute to an improved future for higher education.
management revue. Socio-economic Studies, Aug 21, 2017
Abstract Honouring Werner Fricke means carrying on his work. This essay argues for the applicabil... more Abstract Honouring Werner Fricke means carrying on his work. This essay argues for the applicability of the lessons and strategies learned from the successes of the “socio-technical systems design” and “industrial democracy” movement to the reconstruction of universities as stakeholder ‒ designed and managed organisations. Universities must now conduct research and teach in ways that promote social mobility and solidarity, and prepare new generations to reclaim welfare states from the global inequality and environmental collapse created by neoliberalism. Doing this means fundamental organisational change away from Neo-Taylorism by means of approaches learned in the previous generations of the industrial democracy movement. Keywords: industrial democracy, Neo-Taylorism, neoliberalism, socio-technical systems design, Universities ----- Usando el pasado democratico para acabar con el neoliberalismo en las universidades: Investigacion-Accion, Diseno de Sistemas Socio-tecnicos y el Futuro Global Resumen Honrar a Werner Fricke significa llevar adelante su trabajo. Este ensayo aboga por la aplicabilidad de las lecciones y estrategias aprendidas de los exitos del movimiento de “diseno de sistemas ociotecnicos” y “democracia industrial” en la reconstruccion de la universidad como organizaciones disenadas y gestionadas por los actores interesados e involucrados. Las universidades deben ahora realizar investigaciones y ensenar de forma que promuevan la movilidad social y la solidaridad, y preparen a las nuevas generaciones para recuperar los estados de bienestar de la desigualdad global y el colapso ambiental creado por el neoliberalismo. Hacer esto significa un cambio organizativo fundamental alejado del Neo-Taylorismo mediante enfoques aprendidos en las generaciones anteriores del movimiento de la democracia industrial. Palabras clave: Democracia industrial, Neo-Taylorismo, neoliberalismo, diseno de sistemas ociotecnicos, universidades. ----- Bibliography: Greenwood, Davydd J.: Using the Democratic Past to End Neoliberalism in Universities: Action Research, Socio-technical Systems Design, and the Global Future, IJAR, 2-2017, pp. 178-190. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i2.06
The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities an... more The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Mondragon University on its new urban campus of Bilbao AS Fabrik. In a time of increasing urbanisation, universities must reflect on their relationship to surrounding cities and regions and develop ways to incorporate the urban and regional setting in their educational offerings. This BA shows the value of a transdisciplinary Action Research approach in facing complex social challenges and contributing to innovative social transformations in the city and region. The new campus also marks the beginning of an internal university process to develop mutual knowledge and greater permeability between different degree programmes in pursuit of a new organisational culture and practice that moves beyond narrow disciplinary models.
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2024
The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities an... more The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Mondragon University on its new urban campus of Bilbao AS Fabrik. In a time of increasing urbanisation, universities must reflect on their relationship to surrounding cities and regions and develop ways to incorporate the urban and regional setting in their educational offerings. This BA shows the value of a transdisciplinary Action Research approach in facing complex social challenges and contributing to innovative social transformations in the city and region. The new campus also marks the beginning of an internal university process to develop mutual knowledge and greater permeability between different degree programmes in pursuit of a new organisational culture and practice that moves beyond narrow disciplinary models.
This is the 5th edition of Stringer’s well-known text, co-authored this time with Alfredo Ortiz A... more This is the 5th edition of Stringer’s well-known text, co-authored this time with Alfredo Ortiz Aragon, a collaboration that adds dimensions and locations not found in earlier editions. The book co...
Understanding how action research can be practiced, taught, and learned in contemporary universit... more Understanding how action research can be practiced, taught, and learned in contemporary universities requires understanding the dominant structures that organize higher education in the 21st century. This article presents the neo-liberal and Taylorist structures affecting higher education and then places the practice and study of action research in this context to outline ways action research could contribute to an improved future for higher education.
management revue. Socio-economic Studies, Aug 21, 2017
Abstract Honouring Werner Fricke means carrying on his work. This essay argues for the applicabil... more Abstract Honouring Werner Fricke means carrying on his work. This essay argues for the applicability of the lessons and strategies learned from the successes of the “socio-technical systems design” and “industrial democracy” movement to the reconstruction of universities as stakeholder ‒ designed and managed organisations. Universities must now conduct research and teach in ways that promote social mobility and solidarity, and prepare new generations to reclaim welfare states from the global inequality and environmental collapse created by neoliberalism. Doing this means fundamental organisational change away from Neo-Taylorism by means of approaches learned in the previous generations of the industrial democracy movement. Keywords: industrial democracy, Neo-Taylorism, neoliberalism, socio-technical systems design, Universities ----- Usando el pasado democratico para acabar con el neoliberalismo en las universidades: Investigacion-Accion, Diseno de Sistemas Socio-tecnicos y el Futuro Global Resumen Honrar a Werner Fricke significa llevar adelante su trabajo. Este ensayo aboga por la aplicabilidad de las lecciones y estrategias aprendidas de los exitos del movimiento de “diseno de sistemas ociotecnicos” y “democracia industrial” en la reconstruccion de la universidad como organizaciones disenadas y gestionadas por los actores interesados e involucrados. Las universidades deben ahora realizar investigaciones y ensenar de forma que promuevan la movilidad social y la solidaridad, y preparen a las nuevas generaciones para recuperar los estados de bienestar de la desigualdad global y el colapso ambiental creado por el neoliberalismo. Hacer esto significa un cambio organizativo fundamental alejado del Neo-Taylorismo mediante enfoques aprendidos en las generaciones anteriores del movimiento de la democracia industrial. Palabras clave: Democracia industrial, Neo-Taylorismo, neoliberalismo, diseno de sistemas ociotecnicos, universidades. ----- Bibliography: Greenwood, Davydd J.: Using the Democratic Past to End Neoliberalism in Universities: Action Research, Socio-technical Systems Design, and the Global Future, IJAR, 2-2017, pp. 178-190. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i2.06
AbstrAct After analysing the organisational pathologies and societal ills created by the neoliber... more AbstrAct After analysing the organisational pathologies and societal ills created by the neoliberalisation of universities, the article engages in an organisational critique of the pseudo-business model currently in use. It poses as a solution the recreation of universities as trusts, with a model of beneficiary ownership, a matrix form of organisation and renewed relations with society. For inspiration it looks to beneficiary-run organisations on the model of the John Lewis Partnership or the Mondragón University. The article explains why such beneficial matrix organisations are superior to current universities and how they offer an opportunity to recreate universities for the public good.
Conferencia pronunciada en Carrión de los Céspedes (Sevilla), en marzo de 2017 y organizada por e... more Conferencia pronunciada en Carrión de los Céspedes (Sevilla), en marzo de 2017 y organizada por el Grupo de Estudios Carrioneros Joaquín Galeano de Paz
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