Lawrence Busch, "Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 026203607X | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 1302 KB
English | ISBN: 026203607X | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 1302 KB
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 cut. In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach.
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