The Editor and Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Community: A Diverse Conceptualization and Realization

Ian McNay

Part 1: The Academic Community

Persistent Ghosts: Romantic Origins of the Idea of University Communities

John Wyatt

Higher Education Communities and Academic Identity

Maurice Kogan

The PhD Examination: An Exercise in Community-building and Gatekeeping

Carolyn Jackson

Penny Tinkler

Becoming an Educator: Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Janice Malcolm

Miriam Zukas

Managerialism and University Managers: Building New Academic Communities or Disrupting Old Ones?

Rosemary Deem

Rachel Johnson

Territorial Disputes: The Impact of Quality Assurance on Relationships between Academic and Institutional Values

John Brennan

Tarla Shah

From Ivory Tower to Knowledge Factory? The Impact of Industry Links on Academics in a Chinese University and a British University

Su-Ann Oh

Part 2: The Hinterland Community

The Role of Higher Education for Adults in their Communities: Nurturing Social Capital

Julia Preece

Higher Education and Diversity: Regional Learning Infrastructures and Student Progression in the Post-Dearing Era

Judith Watson

David Yeomans

David Smith

Nick Nelson

Patrick Ainley

The European Community: A Case Study of Higher Education Policy Making

Anne Corbett

Lifelong Learning in the Workplace: A Comparison of France and the UK

Yvonne Hillier

Part 3: The Future Community: Virtuality, Reality and Liberal Idealism

Virtual Learning Communities and the Role of Computer-mediated Communication Conferencing: Practices and Problems

Ann Lahiff

Edwin Webb

The Virtual Learning Community: Informating the Learning Process with On-line Learning Environments

Kevin Brosnan

Culling Community from Conceptual Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Prospects for Building Higher Education Communities in the Twenty-first Century

Eric Gilder

Appendix

Index