Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

Name: Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University
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ISBN: 9780415956727

ISBN-10: 0415956722

ISBN-13: 9780415956727

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joyce E. Canaan, Wesley Shumar

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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 transitionsnbsp;are indicative of the widernbsp;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…

Book details

List price: $148.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Foreword



Acknowledgments



Setting the Theoretical Framework



Higher Education in the Era of Globalization and Neoliberalism




System



Managing Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Instructional Design and the Manufacturing of Higher Education




Public Good or Private Value: A Critique of the Commodification of Knowledge in Higher Education-A Canadian Perspective




Space, Place and the American University




Entrenching International Inequality: The Impact of the Global Commodifiation of Higher Education on Developing Countries




Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The Politics of Neoliberal Agendas in Theory and Practice




Practice



The Variety of Student Experience: Investigating the Complex Dynamics of Undergraduate Learning in Russell and Non-Russell Universities in England




Protocols and Performances: Scientific Discourse in the Molecular Biology Laboratory




Indigenous Epistemologies and the Neoliberal View of Higher Education




No Burden to Carry: Social Constructions of Class and Self-Improvement in Cape Breton




Camaraderie, Distraction and Discouragement: Academics and Gendered Patterns of Peer Interactions Among College Students




Communication and Emotion in Gendered Organization: The Hidden Transcripts of Power in Higher Education




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



Afterword: University Challenge: Neoliberal Abstraction and Being More Concrete



Contributors


Index