Lowering Higher Education : The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education /

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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. Côte and Allahar expose stakeholder...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Côte, James E., 1953-
Other Authors: Allahar, Anton L., 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bildungsideal.
Bildungsauftrag.
Hochschule.
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher.
College teachers > Attitudes.
College students > Rating of.
College students > Attitudes.
EDUCATION > Higher.
higher education.
Professeurs (Enseignement superieur) > Attitudes.
Étudiants > Attitudes.
Étudiants > Évaluation.
Universites.
Enseignement superieur.
Universities
Kanada.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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. Côte 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.
"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. Côte and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côte 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9781442693456

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