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9780415956727

Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415956727

  • ISBN10:

    0415956722

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-07-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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 transitions are indicative of the wider 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 important contribution to Education as well as Economics and Politics -- furthers our understandings of universities as marketisable entities as part of the globalized economy.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. ix
List of Tablesp. xi
Forewordp. xiii
Acknowledgmentsp. xix
Setting the Theoretical Framework
Higher Education in the Era of Globalization and Neoliberalismp. 1
System
Managing Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Instructional Design and the Manufacturing of Higher Educationp. 33
Public Good or Private Value: A Critique of the Commodification of Knowledge in Higher Education-A Canadian Perspectivep. 45
Space, Place and the American Universityp. 67
Entrenching International Inequality: The Impact of the Global Commodifiation of Higher Education on Developing Countriesp. 84
Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The Politics of Neoliberal Agendas in Theory and Practicep. 101
Practice
The Variety of Student Experience: Investigating the Complex Dynamics of Undergraduate Learning in Russell and Non-Russell Universities in Englandp. 131
Protocols and Performances: Scientific Discourse in the Molecular Biology Laboratoryp. 153
Indigenous Epistemologies and the Neoliberal View of Higher Educationp. 172
No Burden to Carry: Social Constructions of Class and Self-Improvement in Cape Bretonp. 193
Camaraderie, Distraction and Discouragement: Academics and Gendered Patterns of Peer Interactions Among College Studentsp. 211
Communication and Emotion in Gendered Organization: The Hidden Transcripts of Power in Higher Educationp. 234
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (European Social) Forum: Or How New Forms of Accountability Are Transforming Academics' Identities and Possible Responsesp. 256
Afterword: University Challenge: Neoliberal Abstraction and Being More Concretep. 278
Contributorsp. 299
Indexp. 305
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