The Experience of Neoliberal Education

Herausgeber: Urciuoli, Bonnie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified "experiences" have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781785338632
• ISBN-10: 1785338633
• Artikelnr.: 50450848

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Urciuoli is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Hamilton College. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class, and language and particularly the discursive construction of "diversity" in U.S. higher education.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience
Bonnie Urciuoli
Chapter 1. John Dewey's Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age
Pauline Turner Strong
Chapter 2. Undergraduate Research in Veblen's Vision: Idle Curiosity,
Bureaucratic Accountancy and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher
Education
Richard Handler
Chapter 3. Empathy as Industry: An Undergraduate Perspective on
Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania
Jack LaViolette
Chapter 4. Dirty Work: The Carnival of Service
John J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari Jacobson
Chapter 5. No Good Deed Goes Uncounted: A Reflection on College
Volunteerism
Sarah Bergbauer
Chapter 6. From Service Learning to Social Innovation: The Development of
the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning
Chaise LaDousa
Chapter 7. High Hopes and Low Impact: Obstacles in Student Research
Anastassia Baldrige
Chapter 8. The Experience Experts
Bonnie Urciuoli
Chapter 9. Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning
Christopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar
Chapter 10. Engineering Success: Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through
Pouring a Bottle of Water
Alex Posecznick
Chapter 11. Caught Between Commodification and Audit: Concluding Thoughts
on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education  
Wesley Shumar
Index