Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University [Hardcover]

This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered a key site for training and wealth generation in the so-called 'knowledge economy' that operates in a globalising, high tech world. Further, these transitions are underpinned by neo-liberal economic ideas that assume that the public sector is a drag on the economy unless it is subject to the rules, regulations and assumptions that govern the private sector. This excellent volume - an important contribution to Education as well as Economics and Politics - furthers our understandings of universities as marketable entities as part of the globalized economy.

Foreword James Collins.  Acknowledgments.  Part 1: Setting the Theoretical Framework  1. Higher Education in the Era of Globalization and Neoliberalism Joyce E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar  Part 2: System  2.Managing Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Instructional Design and the Manufacturing of Higher Education Jonathan T. Church  3. Public Good or Private Value: A Critique of the Commodification of Knowledge in Higher Education: A Canadian Perspective Magda Lewis  4. Space, Place and the American University Wesley Shumar  5. Entrenching International Inequality: The Impact of the Global Commodification of Higher Education on Developing Countries Rajani Naidoo  6. Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The Politics of Neo-Liberal Agendas in Theory and Practice Sarah Amsler