Lowering higher education : the rise of corporate universities and the fall of liberal education / James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar.
2011
LB2329.8.C2 C68 2011 (Mapit)
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Lowering higher education : the rise of corporate universities and the fall of liberal education / James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar.
Author
Côté, James E.
ISBN
9781442642218
1442642211
9781442611214 (pbk.)
1442611219 (pbk.)
9781442693456 (pbk.)
1442693452 (pbk.)
1442642211
9781442611214 (pbk.)
1442611219 (pbk.)
9781442693456 (pbk.)
1442693452 (pbk.)
Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
vii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
LB2329.8.C2 C68 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
378
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."--pub. desc.
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."--pub. desc.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Allahar, Anton.
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Table of Contents
A history of a mission adrift : the idea of the university subverted
Stakeholder relations : the educational forum
Standards : schools without scholarship?
Universities : crisis, what crisis?
Students : is disengagement inevitable?
Technologies : will they save the day?
Recommendations and conclusions : our stewardship of the system.
Stakeholder relations : the educational forum
Standards : schools without scholarship?
Universities : crisis, what crisis?
Students : is disengagement inevitable?
Technologies : will they save the day?
Recommendations and conclusions : our stewardship of the system.