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Neoliberalism, economism and higher education / edited by Almantas Samalavičius.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018Description: 1 online resource (viii, 172 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781527505940
  • 1527505944
  • 152750980X
  • 9781527509801
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.432 23
LOC classification:
  • LC191.9 .N46 2018eb
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Contents:
Introduction: higher education in the monoculture of consumption / Almantas Samalavičius -- Part I. Global shifts in higher education and their implications. Rethinking the university : a conversation with Ronald Barnett ; Higher education and its discontents ;a conversation with Jon Nixon ; Higher education and the trap of bureaucracy : a conversation with Christian Moraru ; Political philosophy of austerity ; a conversation with Thomas Docherty ; Technology, consumership and higher education : a conversation with Arthur W. Hunt III ; Ideology, wisdom and moral education : a conversation with Norman Lillegard -- Part II. Neoliberalism, economism and global university reforms. Higher education and neoliberal temptation : a conversation with Henry A. Giroux ; The rise of neoliberal universities : a conversation with Raewyn Connell ; Neoliberalism and higher education in Central Europe ; a conversation with Ana Hofman ; Neoliberalism's new face, Polish higher education : a conversation with Marek Wilczynski ; Higher education and post-socialist neoliberalism : a conversation with Margarita Karamihova ; Economism and structural changes in French higher education : a conversation with Jan Borm ; The paradoxes of "world-class" universities ; a conversation with Sajay Samuel -- Part III. Toward new economic paradigms. Beyond contemporary economic thinking : a conversation with John B. Cobb ; Corporate capitalism and mythology of modernity : a conversation with Wade Rowland ; The pursuit of happiness : a conversation with Mark Anielski ; Against growth ; a conversation with Joshua Farley.
Summary: This concise volume presents a series of conversations conducted by its editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics. The primary focus is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the complex nature of the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics, and the values and goals educational institutions pursue and produce. Contributors to this volume discuss why the present systems of higher education are ailing almost everywhere, and which remedies have turned out to be their poison. The contributions here investigate how and why universi.
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Introduction: higher education in the monoculture of consumption / Almantas Samalavičius -- Part I. Global shifts in higher education and their implications. Rethinking the university : a conversation with Ronald Barnett ; Higher education and its discontents ;a conversation with Jon Nixon ; Higher education and the trap of bureaucracy : a conversation with Christian Moraru ; Political philosophy of austerity ; a conversation with Thomas Docherty ; Technology, consumership and higher education : a conversation with Arthur W. Hunt III ; Ideology, wisdom and moral education : a conversation with Norman Lillegard -- Part II. Neoliberalism, economism and global university reforms. Higher education and neoliberal temptation : a conversation with Henry A. Giroux ; The rise of neoliberal universities : a conversation with Raewyn Connell ; Neoliberalism and higher education in Central Europe ; a conversation with Ana Hofman ; Neoliberalism's new face, Polish higher education : a conversation with Marek Wilczynski ; Higher education and post-socialist neoliberalism : a conversation with Margarita Karamihova ; Economism and structural changes in French higher education : a conversation with Jan Borm ; The paradoxes of "world-class" universities ; a conversation with Sajay Samuel -- Part III. Toward new economic paradigms. Beyond contemporary economic thinking : a conversation with John B. Cobb ; Corporate capitalism and mythology of modernity : a conversation with Wade Rowland ; The pursuit of happiness : a conversation with Mark Anielski ; Against growth ; a conversation with Joshua Farley.

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This concise volume presents a series of conversations conducted by its editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics. The primary focus is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the complex nature of the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics, and the values and goals educational institutions pursue and produce. Contributors to this volume discuss why the present systems of higher education are ailing almost everywhere, and which remedies have turned out to be their poison. The contributions here investigate how and why universi.

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