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Produktbild: Knowledge for Sale

Knowledge for Sale The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

19.09.2023

Verlag

Mit Press

Seitenzahl

176

Maße (L/B/H)

20.3/13.7/1.1 cm

Gewicht

236 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-262-54926-4

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

19.09.2023

Verlag

Mit Press

Seitenzahl

176

Maße (L/B/H)

20.3/13.7/1.1 cm

Gewicht

236 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-262-54926-4

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Knowledge for Sale
  • Preface to the English Language Edition xi
    Acknowledgments xix
    The Market for Knowledge 1
    Crises 3
    Climate change 3
    Rising and more volatile food prices 4
    Water shortages 5
    Rising energy costs 5
    Widespread obesity 6
    Financial crises 7

    Liberalisms and Neoliberalisms 11
    Human knowledge is always limited 15
    An irrefutable logical model can transcend the limits of human knowledge 15
    Institutions must be reshaped so as to fit the logical model 17
    The ability of States to intervene in markets must be limited 17
    Social justice as both a concept and a set of policies is rejected as a mirage 18
    Selves are to be reconstructed as isolated and entrepreneurial 18

    Beyond Neoliberalisms 21
    The self is social 21
    Each institution promotes certain kinds of selves and rejects other kinds 22
    People, institutions, and things make society together 23
    Communities of scholars and invisible colleges are essential to the creation of knowledge 24
    Markets are forms of governance 24
    Educated citizens are essential for democracy; without democracy, liberty is illusory 26
    Addressing the crises that confront us requires that we imagine, debate, and enact new futures 26

    Administration 31
    Changing roles and increasing numbers of administrators 32
    Shift from academics to managers as administrators 39
    Creation of administrative careers 39
    Growth in salaries of top administrators 39
    Growth in advertising and marketing of universities and research institutes 40
    Growth in numbers of part-time and temporary (adjunct) faculty
    41 Changing sources of university and research institute financial support 42
    Universities by the numbers 43

    Education 49
    From public good to private good 49
    Shift from public support for higher education to individual support 52
    Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) 55
    A decline in foreign language instruction 56
    Education solely as a means of maximizing one’s salary 57
    Growth in testing and standardizing of knowledge 58
    Plagiarism 61
    Dumbing down higher education 62

    Research 65
    Counting publications 65
    Counting citations 67
    Checking prestige of journals 71
    Downgrading of books and book chapters 74
    Competing for grants 75
    Greater incidence of fraud 77
    Ghost and honorary authorship 78
    Forced citations by journal editors 79
    Rising costs of journals as a few publishers corner the market 80
    Conflicts of interest in research 81
    Changes in intellectual property rights 84

    Public Engagement and Extension 91
    Decline in public support 92
    Growth of private extension-like services 93
    Wider gap between research and extension 93
    Decline of public interest research 94
    Rise of strongly ideological think tanks 94

    Consequences 97
    Higher education is being rapidly altered 97
    Research is more and more dominated by immediate (often economic) ends 98
    Increasing corporate domination of the research enterprise 99
    Discouraging innovation and high-risk research 100
    The university as a growth machine 101
    Isolated scholars and organizational solidarity 101

    Can Our Universities and Research Institutes Address These Crises? 107
    What kinds of universities and research institutes do we want? 107
    How can we grapple with the wicked problems facing us? 108

    Remembrance of Things Future: Some Specific Proposals for Change 109
    Make universities and research institutes (more) secure places 111
    Make universities and research institutes into models of democracy, deliberation, and discourse 116
    Help build more sustainable societies 118
    Better integrate research and education 122
    Recognize the importance of slow scholarship 122
    Bring the arts and humanities back in 124
    Teach each other and various publics 125
    Perform differently 126

    Conclusion: Toward a Plural World 131
    Notes 135
    References 139