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OverviewOver the past century, higher education in the United States has developed an increasingly powerful corporate ethos, as institutions compete for students, faculty, and funding. This book examines how the liberal democratic principles driving higher education often conflict with market pressures to credential students and offer knowledge that has a clear exchange value. Eric Gould, who has been both academician and college administrator, argues that the failure to structure the curriculum so that it integrates responsible social idealism and humanism with economic and cultural needs constitutes the moral crisis of the university. Gould analyzes the economics and politics of higher education, showing how student consumerism, culture wars, faculty alienation, trustee activism, and a split between the concepts of ""culture"" and ""society"" have all resulted from the unholy alliance between pragmatism, corporatism, and liberalism in higher education. He asserts that what is needed is a general education for undergraduates that promotes the ability to critique power relations (including those within higher education) so that students can understand how social forces-and their embodiment of ideas, ideologies, and claims for truth-shape contemporary public philosophy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric GouldPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780300209075ISBN 10: 030020907 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 July 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsWinner of the 2003 Frandson Book Award sponsored by the University Continuing Education Association “This well-written, well-documented book is a subtle account of the complex problems of the university.”—David Labaree, author of How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning Winner of the 2003 Frandson Book Award sponsored by the University Continuing Education Association This well-written, well-documented book is a subtle account of the complex problems of the university. -David Labaree, author of How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning Winner of the 2003 Frandson Book Award sponsored by the University Continuing Education Association This well-written, well-documented book is a subtle account of the complex problems of the university. -David Labaree, author of How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning Author InformationEric Gould is professor of English at the University of Denver. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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