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Knowledge for Sale

The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

Knowledge for Sale( )
Author: Busch, Lawrence
Series title:Infrastructures Ser.
ISBN:978-0-262-03607-8
Publication Date:Feb 2017
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $25.00
Book Description:

How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.

A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Education / Schools / Levels / Higher
Education / Administration / Higher
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Capitalism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.63 x 8.31 x 0.68 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds



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