1st Edition
Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University
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
