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A Critique Of Universities

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Author : Pll Sklason
language : en
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
Release Date : 2015-03-19

A Critique Of Universities written by Pll Sklason and has been published by University of Iceland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Education categories.

Whart sort of institution should the university aspire to be? What role should it be playing in the present? How should it be governed? Are universities taking proper care of the knowledge that they are responsible for? These questions, along with others, are pursued by Pll Sklason in the present volume on the basis of many years of reflection and experience of university administration. His main thesis is that universities need to be more dedicated to critical thinking and to cultivate the moral dimension of scientific, and technical knowledge.

College For Sale

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Author : Wesley Shumar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-23

College For Sale written by Wesley Shumar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Education categories.

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.; The book 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.

A Critique Of Universities

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Author : Pll Sklason
language : en
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
Release Date : 2015-03-19

The American College

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Author : Abraham Flexner
language : en
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-02

The American College written by Abraham Flexner and has been published by Trieste Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with categories.

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Academic Labour And The Capitalist University

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Author : Joss Winn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Academic Labour And The Capitalist University written by Joss Winn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.

Stillborn Education

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Author : Paul Von Blum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

Stillborn Education written by Paul Von Blum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Education categories.

The Ideal Of The University

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Author : Robert Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12

The Ideal Of The University written by Robert Wolff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Education categories.

The Ideal of the University is a lucid, comprehensive analysis of the rationale, principles, and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp, carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the "myth" of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for a radical reconstruction based on a "social contract" that would place ultimate authority in the hands of the faculty and students. The book concludes with a series of "practical proposals for Utopian reform," including such provocative recommendations as a variable-length, ungraded undergraduate program and elimination of the Ph.D. degree. In his introduction to this new edition, Wolff expands upon his original speculations to argue in substantive detail for the liberating potential of the liberal arts. Drawing upon Freud and Marcuse, Wolff proposes that literature, art, and philosophy embody a promise of gratification that engenders a negative critique of the social and cultural status quo. The rationale for the liberal arts university is society's need for a reservoir of critical thinking that is the motor of social, economic, and political progress. Elegantly written and passionately argued; The Ideal of the University is essential reading for educators and sociologists.