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The experience of neoliberal education /

"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 indivi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Urciuoli, Bonnie, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Colección:Higher education in critical perspective ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 243 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785338649
1785338641