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Lowering Higher Education : The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education / James Cote, Anton L. Allahar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442693456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE RISE OF PSEUDO-VOCATIONALISM -- 1. A History of a Mission Adrift: The Idea of the University Subverted -- 2. Stakeholder Relations: The Educational Forum -- PART TWO: ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRIFT TO PSEUDO-VOCATIONALISM -- Introduction -- 3. Standards: Schools without Scholarship? -- 4. Universities: Crisis, What Crisis? -- 5. Students: Is Disengagement Inevitable? -- 6. Technologies: Will They Save the Day? -- PART THREE: THE WAY FORWARD INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- 7. Recommendations and Conclusions: Our Stewardship of the System -- Notes -- Index
Summary: What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction.Lowering Higher Education points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies—which the authors argue are poorly informed—on a daily basis. Côté and Allahar expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students. While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE RISE OF PSEUDO-VOCATIONALISM -- 1. A History of a Mission Adrift: The Idea of the University Subverted -- 2. Stakeholder Relations: The Educational Forum -- PART TWO: ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRIFT TO PSEUDO-VOCATIONALISM -- Introduction -- 3. Standards: Schools without Scholarship? -- 4. Universities: Crisis, What Crisis? -- 5. Students: Is Disengagement Inevitable? -- 6. Technologies: Will They Save the Day? -- PART THREE: THE WAY FORWARD INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- 7. Recommendations and Conclusions: Our Stewardship of the System -- Notes -- Index

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What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction.Lowering Higher Education points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies—which the authors argue are poorly informed—on a daily basis. Côté and Allahar expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students. While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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