Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University (Routledge Research in Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415898013 ISBN 13: 9780415898010

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered a key site for training and wealth generation in the so-called 'knowledge economy' that operates in a globalising, high tech world. Further, these transitions are underpinned by neo-liberal economic ideas that assume that the public sector is a drag on the economy unless it is subject to the rules, regulations and assumptions that govern the private sector. This excellent volume - an important contribution to Education as well as Economics and Politics - furthers our understandings of universities as marketable entities as part of the globalized economy.

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About the Author

Joyce Canaan is a Reader in Sociology at Birmingham City University.

Wesley Shumar is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415898013
• ISBN 13: 9780415898010
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Canaan Joyce E., Shumar Wesley