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Academia, Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities
Jamie Brownlee
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Description for Academia, Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities
Paperback. The first book to address the negative consequences of corporatization of higher education. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada s higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book ... Read more
Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada s higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552667354
SKU
V9781552667354
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