TY - BOOK AU - Baldrige,Anastassia AU - Bergbauer,Sarah AU - Bodinger De Uriarte,John J. AU - Cai,Christopher AU - Handler,Richard AU - Jacobson,Shari AU - Ladousa,Chaise AU - Laviolette,Jack AU - Majumdar,Usnish AU - Posecznick,Alex AU - Shumar,Wesley AU - Turner Strong,Pauline AU - Urciuoli,Bonnie TI - The Experience of Neoliberal Education T2 - Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies SN - 9781785338632 U1 - 378 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - College students as consumers KW - Education, Higher KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Neoliberalism KW - Universities and colleges KW - Sociological aspects KW - EDUCATION / Higher KW - bisacsh KW - Educational Studies, Anthropology (General) N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience --; CHAPTER 1 John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age --; CHAPTER 2 Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy, and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education --; CHAPTER 3 Empathy as Industry An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania --; CHAPTER 4 Dirty Work The Carnival of Service --; CHAPTER 5 No Good Deed Goes Uncounted A Reflection on College Volunteerism --; CHAPTER 6 From Service-Learning to Social Innovation The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning --; CHAPTER 7 High Hopes and Low Impact Obstacles in Student Research --; CHAPTER 8 The Experience Experts --; CHAPTER 9 Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning --; CHAPTER 10 Engineering Success Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water --; CHAPTER 11 Caught between Commodification and Audit Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 individual educational package. Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified "experiences" have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785338649?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785338649 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785338649/original ER -