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Structure and agency in the neoliberal university /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Canaan, Joyce E., Shumar, Wesley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Routledge research in education ; 15.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Higher education and state > Cross-cultural studies.
Neoliberalism > Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Higher education in the era of globalization and neoliberalism / Joyce E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar
  • Managing knowledge: intellectual property, instructional design and the manufacturing of higher education / Jonathan T. Church
  • Public good or private value: a critique of the commodification of knowledge in higher education: a Canadian perspective / Magda Lewis
  • Space, place and the American university / Wesley Shumar
  • Entrenching international inequality: the impact of the global commodification of higher education on developing countries / Rajani Naidoo
  • Higher education reform in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: the politics of neoliberal agendas in theory and practice / Sarah Amsler
  • The variety of student experience: investigating the complex dynamics of undergraduate learning in Russell and non-Russell universities in England / Patrick Ainley and Mark Weyers
  • Protocols and performances: scientific discourse in the molecular biology laboratory / Carol B. Brandt
  • Indigenous epistemologies and the neoliberal view of higher education / Bryan Mckinley Jones Brayboy, Angelina E. Castagno, and Emma Maughan
  • No burden to carry: social constructions of class and self-improvement in Cape Breton / Jane Mceldowney Jensen
  • Camaraderie, distraction and discouragement: academics and gendered patterns of peer interactions among college students / Laura M. Montgomery
  • Communication and emotion in gendered organization: the hidden transcripts of power in higher education / Breda Luthar and Zdenka Šadl
  • A funny thing happened on the way to the (European social) forum: or how new forms of accountability are transforming academics' identities and possible responses / Joyce E. Canaan
  • Afterword: university challenge: neoliberal abstraction and being more concrete / Richard Johnson.