Transforming Higher Education

Economy, Democracy, and the University
Herausgeber: Kriger, Thomas; Rosow, Stephen J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this book address the transformation of higher education and the transformative possibilities of its current conditions. Higher education in American history has always functioned within the context of larger social and political forces. Universities and colleges...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780739131701
• ISBN-10: 0739131702
• Artikelnr.: 28523655

Autorenporträt

Stephen J. Rosow is a professor of Political Science at State University of New York. Thomas Kriger is Provost at the National Labor College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I. Historical-Theoretical Interventions
Chapter 3 Chapter One. Corporate MisEducation and The Liberal Arts Response
Chapter 4 Chapter Two. Veblen's The Higher Learning in America and the
Ambiguities of Academic Independence Chapter 5 Chapter Three: What is
Information? The Neoliberal Turn, Digitalization and Interdisciplinarity
Part 6 Part II. Contesting the Neo-liberal University Chapter 7 Chapter
Four: The Concept of Corporatization: A Useful Tool or Feel-Good Slogan
Chapter 8 Chapter Five. The Economics of Globalization and Corporatization
of Higher Education Chapter 9 Chapter Six. Administrative and Geographic
Determinants of Economics Course Offerings in American Colleges and
Universities Chapter 10 Chapter Seven. Corporatization and Research
Information Part 11 Part III. Envisioning Different Higher Education
Chapter 12 Chapter Eight. Global Knowledge, the University and Democratic
Politics Chapter 13 Chapter Nine. Controversy, Contest and Competition: The
Institutionalization of the "Disciplines of Scale" and Higher Learning in
the Twenty-First Century Chapter 14 Chapter Ten. Open Source and Open
Content as a Counter to Globalization and Corporatism for Public
Institutions of Higher Learning