Higher Education
Open for Business
Seiten
2007
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1848-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1848-1 (ISBN)
Presents a critique of the emergence of commercial values in a system reserved for learning and scholastic inquiry.
Higher Education: Open for Business addresses a problem in higher learning, which is newly recognized in the academic spotlight: the overcommercialization of higher education. The book asks that you, the reader, think about the following: Did you go to a Coke or Pepsi school? Do your children attend a Nike or Adidas school? Is the college in your town a Dell or Gateway campus? These questions should not be a primary concern for students, parents or faculty in an environment that has to allow students to freely focus on learning. But in a time of fiscal uncertainty, can higher education ignore the benefits of commercial ventures? It may seem foolish to do so. However, commercialism has gotten too close to certain aspects of academia such as the campus environment, classroom activities, academic research, and college sports. This disturbing encroachment of academic ground is addressed in Higher Education: Open for Business by a diverse host of authors who are closely involved in higher learning.
Higher Education: Open for Business addresses a problem in higher learning, which is newly recognized in the academic spotlight: the overcommercialization of higher education. The book asks that you, the reader, think about the following: Did you go to a Coke or Pepsi school? Do your children attend a Nike or Adidas school? Is the college in your town a Dell or Gateway campus? These questions should not be a primary concern for students, parents or faculty in an environment that has to allow students to freely focus on learning. But in a time of fiscal uncertainty, can higher education ignore the benefits of commercial ventures? It may seem foolish to do so. However, commercialism has gotten too close to certain aspects of academia such as the campus environment, classroom activities, academic research, and college sports. This disturbing encroachment of academic ground is addressed in Higher Education: Open for Business by a diverse host of authors who are closely involved in higher learning.
Christian Gilde is an instructor and research associate at the University of Bath.
Chapter 1 The Market of Higher Education
Chapter 2 The Overcommercialization of Higher Education
Chapter 3 The Impact of Commercialism on the Classroom
Chapter 4 Commercialization Goes High-Tech: The Online Classroom
Chapter 5 Education from a Distance
Chapter 6 College Sports
Chapter 7 The Spending Nation: Liberal Education and the Privileged Place of Consumption
Chapter 8 Profits, Politics, and Social Justice in the Contemporary American University
Chapter 9 Safeguarding Uncertain Futures
| Co-Autor | Elizabeth G. Miller, Catherine O'Neill, Fredrick Chilson, David Rutledge |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 304 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7391-1848-X / 073911848X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-1848-1 / 9780739118481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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