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Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Brendan Cantwell
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Description for Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Paperback. The book will appeal to anyone trying to make sense of contemporary higher education. Editor(s): Cantwell, Brendan; Kauppinen, Ilkka. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNK; JNM; KJMV1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education - including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property - is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. Essentially, it allows us to understand higher education's shift from creating scholarship and learning as a public good to generating knowledge as a commodity to be monetized in market activities. In Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization, Brendan Cantwell and Ilkka Kauppinen assemble an international team of leading scholars to explore ... Read more
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education - including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property - is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. Essentially, it allows us to understand higher education's shift from creating scholarship and learning as a public good to generating knowledge as a commodity to be monetized in market activities. In Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization, Brendan Cantwell and Ilkka Kauppinen assemble an international team of leading scholars to explore ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415383
SKU
V9781421415383
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About Brendan Cantwell
Brendan Cantwell is an assistant professor of higher, adult, and lifelong education at Michigan State University. Ilkka Kauppinen is a university lecturer in sociology in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at University of Jyvaskyla and a fellow at the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education.
Reviews for Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
As a collection, Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization presents ways that universities have become more entrepreneurial, more interdisciplinary, more competitive, and more marketable as postsecondary institutions and labor markets have become progressively globalized. Canadian Journal of Higher Education o