1st Edition

Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

Edited By Joyce E. Canaan, Wesley Shumar Copyright 2008
    328 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    328 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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 marketable entities as part of the globalized economy.

    Part I: Setting the Theoretical Framework

    Introduction James Collins

    Chapter 1 Wesley Shumar and Joyce Canaan

    Part Two: System

    Chapter 2 Jonathan T. Church (Arcadia U) Managing Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Instructional Design and the Manufacturing of Higher Education

    Chapter 3 Magda Lewis (Queen’s University) Public Good or Private Value: A Critique of the Commodification of Knowledge in Higher Education—A Canadian Perspective

    Chapter 4 Wesley Shumar (Drexel University) Space, Place and the American University

    Chapter 5 Rajani Naidoo (University of Bath) Unequal knowledge: Exporting Higher Education to Developing Countries

    Chapter 6 Lisa Lucas (University of Bristol) Research Funding and Evaluation Regimes and the Impact on the ‘Research Capital’ Accumulation Activities of UK Universities

    Chapter 7 Patrick Ainley (University of Greenwich) From Teaching to Training, Following the Standards in a Competence-Based Course at an English University

    Chapter 8 Mark A Stevenson (Weber State University) Qualifying Culture: The Politics Of Credentialism In The German Cultural Non-Profit Sector

    Chapter 9 Sarah Amsler (Kingston University London) Markets, Moralities and Competing Utopias in Post-Communist Higher Education’

    Part Three: Practice

    Chapter 10 Joyce E Canaan (University of Central England) From Disdain to Respect: Or How I Changed My Attitude towards Students

    Chapter 11 Carol Brandt (University of New Mexico) Negotiating Entry in the Laboratory: Playing the Game of Scientific Discourse in Higher Education

    Chapter 12 Bryan Brayboy (University of Utah) Playing the Game and Winning?: Indigenous Tribal Nations’ Students and Community Use of Ivy League Universities Toward Empowerment and Liberation

    Chapter 13 Jane Jensen (University of Kentucky) and Benjamin Worth (Lexington Community College)

    Chapter 14 Laura Montgomery (Westmont College) Competition, Camaraderie, and Distraction: The Academic and Social Games of Male and Female Undergraduates and Their Implications for Academic Achievement

    Chapter 15 Breda Luthar and Zdenka Sadl (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Power in the Academic Institution: Woman as a Problem

    Afterword: Richard Johnson, Nottingham Trent University

    Biography

    Joyce Canaan is a Reader in Sociology at Birmingham City University.

    Wesley Shumar is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University.

    "This book is a refreshing counterblast to some of the prevailing rhetoric in global higher education – the rhetoric of markets, consumers and 'delivery' of educational products. It draws our attention to the shifts happening in higher education – not just in our own back yard, but across the globe."

    - Marion Bowl, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning