Joyce E Canaan / Wesley Shumar (eds.)

Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

Herausgeber: Canaan, Joyce E; Shumar, Wesley

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered a key site for training and wealth generation in the so-called 'knowledge economy' that operates in a globalising, high tech world. Further, these transitions are underpinned by neo-liberal economic ideas that assume that the public sector is a drag on the economy unless it is subject to the rules, regulations and assumptions that govern the private sector. This excellent volume -- an important contribution to Education as well as Economics and Politics -- furthers our understandings of universities as marketisable entities as part of the globalized economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956727
• ISBN-10: 0415956722
• Artikelnr.: 22781590

Autorenporträt

Joyce Canaan is a Reader in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Wesley Shumar is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword James Collins. Acknowledgments. Part 1: Setting the Theoretical
Framework 1. Higher Education in the Era of Globalization and Neoliberalism
Joyce E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar Part 2: System 2.Managing Knowledge:
Intellectual Property, Instructional Design and the Manufacturing of Higher
Education Jonathan T. Church 3. Public Good or Private Value: A Critique of
the Commodification of Knowledge in Higher Education: A Canadian
Perspective Magda Lewis 4. Space, Place and the American University Wesley
Shumar 5. Entrenching International Inequality: The Impact of the Global
Commodification of Higher Education on Developing Countries Rajani Naidoo
6. Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The Politics of
Neo-Liberal Agendas in Theory and Practice Sarah Amsler Part 3: Practice
7. The Variety of Student Experience, Investigating the Complex Dynamics of
Undergraduate Learning in Russell and Non-Russell Universities in England
Patrick Ainley and Mark Weyers 8. Protocols and Performances: Scientific
Discourse in the Molecular Biology Laboratory Carol B. Brandt 9. Indigenous
Epistemologies and the Neoliberal View of Higher Education Bryan McKinley
Jones Brayboy, Angelina E. Castagno and Emma Maughan 10. No Burden to
Carry: Social Constructions of Class and Self-Improvement in Cape Breton
Jane McEldowney Jensen 11. Camaraderie, Distraction and Discouragement:
Academics and Gendered Patterns of Peer Interactions Among College Students
Laura M. Montgomery 12. Communication and Emotion in Gendered Organization:
The Hidden Transcripts of Power in Higher Education Breda Luthar and Zdenka
adl 13. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (European Social) Forum:
Or How New Forms of Accountability are Transforming Academics¿ Identities
and Possible Responses Joyce E. Canaan. Afterword: University Challenge -
Neo-Liberal Abstraction and Being More Concrete Richard Johnson