The experience of neoliberal education

The experience of neoliberal education / edited by Bonnie Urciuoli.

"The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an indivi...

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Other Authors: Urciuoli, Bonnie, 1949- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Higher education in critical perspective ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
Universities and colleges > Sociological aspects.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects.
College students as consumers.
Neoliberalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
EDUCATION / Higher
Neoliberalism
Education, Higher > Economic aspects
College students as consumers
College students > Attitudes
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Universities and colleges > Sociological aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • John Dewey's philosophy of education in the neoliberal age / Pauline Turner Strong
  • Undergraduate research in Veblen's vision: idle curiosity, bureaucratic accountancy and pecuniary emulation in contemporary higher education / Richard Handler
  • Empathy as industry: an undergraduate perspective on neoliberalism and community engagement at the University of Pennsylvania / Jack LaViolette
  • Dirty work: the carnival of service / John J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari Jacobson
  • No good deed goes uncounted: a reflection on college volunteerism / Sarah Bergbauer
  • From service learning to social innovation: the development of the neoliberal in experiential learning / Chaise LaDousa
  • High hopes and low impact: obstacles in student research / Anastassia Baldrige
  • The experience experts / Bonnie Urciuoli
  • Moral entanglements in service learning / Christopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar
  • Engineering success: performing neoliberal subjectivity through pouring a bottle of water / Alex Posecznick
  • Caught between commodification and audit: concluding thoughts on the contradictions in U.S. higher education / Wesley Shumar.

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