Description: College for Sale : A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education, Paperback by Shumar, Wesley, ISBN 075070411X, ISBN-13 9780750704113, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 enforced changes on their academic lives and those of their students.; Th chronicles changes with the increasing focus on career and the movement towards the instrumental functions of education; the financial crisis and the development of a more corporate approach to education; of consumption that produce universities heavy with expensive, well-equipped and powerful administrations and decreasing numbers of ever more disenfranchised faculty.
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Book Title: College for Sale : A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Ed
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: College for Sale : a Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: General, Higher
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Wesley Shumar
Subject Area: Education
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
