1st Edition
College For Sale A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education
By Wesley Shumar
Copyright 1997
217 Pages
by
Routledge
217 Pages
by
Routledge
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This text provides a framework for understanding higher education in the US and other western countries since the 1970s whereby the logic of the market place has increasingly come to dominate all arenas and, in context, the education system. The author calls this process "commodification" and he describes the transformation of universities in the US and elsewhere as they attempt to accomodate the... Read more
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;
Biography
Philip Wexler, Ivor Goodson, Wesley Shumar
