College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780750704106 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 217 str.

Wesley Shumar

Opis

This text provides a framework for understanding higher education in the US (and other western countries) since the 1970s whereby the logic of the market place has increasingly come to dominate all arenas and, in context, the education system. The author calls this process commodification and he describes the transformation of universities in the US (and elsewhere) as they attempt to accomodate the enforced changes on their academic lives and those of their students.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Commodification; Chapter 3 Elements of Bureaucratic Identity; Chapter 4 Recent History of Higher Education; Chapter 5 Political Economy of Higher Education; Chapter 6 Imagination and the University; Chapter 7 Collective Bargaining in Higher Education; Chapter 8 Planning, Advertising and Consumption; Chapter 9 Symbolic Struggles; Chapter 10 Real Struggles; Chapter 11 Conclusion;

O autorze

Philip Wexler, Ivor Goodson, Wesley Shumar