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Beyond McDonaldization: Visions of Higher Education book cover

1st Edition

Beyond McDonaldization Visions of Higher Education

Edited By Dennis Hayes Copyright 2017
150 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Beyond McDonaldization provides new concepts of higher education for the twenty-first century in a unique manner, challenging much that is written in mainstream texts. This book undertakes a reassessment of the growth of McDonaldization in higher education by exploring how the application of Ritzer’s four features efficiency, predictability, calculability and control has become commonplace.... Read more

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Foreword: Beyond the cheap degree franchise

1 Beyond the McDonaldization of higher education

Dennis Hayes

2 Beyond instrumentalism: Why education is living on borrowed time

Gavin Poynter

3 Beyond McDonaldization: A conversation

Dennis Hayes and George Ritzer

4 Beyond McUniversity: The university as it should be

Angus Kennedy

5 Beyond the secular university

Clare Hornsby and Sebastian Morello

6 Beyond censorship: Toward a Republic of Science

Adam Kissel

7 Beyond McThinking

James Panton

8 Beyond ‘student experience’

Ruth Mieschbuehler

9 Beyond the therapeutic university

Dennis Hayes

10 Beyond pragmatism: The pedagogy of the impressed

Austin Williams

Index

Biography

Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby and the director of the campaign group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF).

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