Wesley Shumar

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A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text analyses higher education in the US and other western countries since the 1970s whereby market place logic has influenced the education system. It describes the transformation of US universities as they attempt to accommodate the changes on their own and their students' academic lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135399771
• Artikelnr.: 39948557

Autorenporträt

Philip Wexler, Ivor Goodson, Wesley Shumar

Inhaltsangabe

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