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Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
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2012
Summary
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming' can also be read as a gerund, implying the critical activity of changing the university, as signaling a creative and political act of radical possibility. The essays in this book address the transformation of higher education and the transformative possibilities of its current conditions. Only by viewing the university as a historical construction can we assess the dangers and opportunities of the new conditions of higher education, and chart a reasonable course for the future. The essays in this book are critical of recent developments in universities and higher education. Most of us come from public universities, and all remain committed to a democratic higher education that we see threatened by recent developments. There is a danger that the combination of economic crisis, market ideology, and global pressures will continue to structure the debate about higher education in ways that freeze out the transformative and politically critical possibilities of the university. Part I of the book examines the historical transformation of the university as it has changed into its current form. Part II examines both the transformation of the university into a neoliberal institution and makes the case for the more political and radical idea of transforming the university in opposition to how it has been transformed in recent years. Part III offers a number of studies aimed at illuminating possibilities for transforming the university in a more progressive, democratic direction.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3170-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3172-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
236
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Corporate MisEducation and the Liberal Arts Response No access
2 Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America and the Ambiguities of Academic Independence No access
3 What is Information? The Neoliberal Turn, Digitalization, and Interdisciplinarity No access
4 The Concept of Corporatization: A Useful Tool or Feel-Good Slogan? No access
5 The Economics of Globalization and Corporatization of Higher Education No access
6 Institutional and Ideological Determinants of Economics Education in U.S. Colleges and Universities No access
7 Corporatization and Research Information No access
8 Global Knowledge, the University, and Democratic Politics No access
9 Controversy, Contest, and Competition: The Institutionalization of the “Disciplines of Scale” and Higher Learning in the Twenty-First Century No access
10 Open Source and Open Content as a Counter to Globalization and Corporatism for Public Institutions of Higher Learning No access
