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Author Woodhouse, Howard Robert, 1947-

Title Selling out : academic freedom and the corporate market / Howard Woodhouse
Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Quuen's University Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (x, 350 pages)
Contents 1. Market Model of Education and the Threat to Academic Freedom -- 2. Marketing Professor Meets the Market -- 3. Taking on Big Pharma -- 4. Commercializing Research and Losing Autonomy -- 5. Going beyond the Market: Evaluating Teaching by Evaluating Learning -- 6. Value Program in Theory and Practice -- 7. People's Free University as an Alternative Model
Summary Selling Out demonstrates that the logics of value of the market and of universities are not only different but opposed to one another. By introducing the reader to a variety of cases, some well known and others not, Woodhouse explains how academic freedom and university autonomy are being subordinated to corporate demands and how faculty have attempted to resist this subjugation. He argues that the mechanistic discourse of corporate culture has replaced the language of education - subject-based disciplines and the professors who teach them have become "resource units," students have become "educational consumers," and curricula have become "program packages." Graduates are now "products" and "competing in the global economy" has replaced the search for truth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Academic freedom -- Canada
University autonomy -- Canada
Business and education -- Canada
Higher education and state -- Canada
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Academic freedom
Business and education
Higher education and state
University autonomy
Universität -- Wirtschaft.
Wirtschaft -- Universität.
Hochschulpolitik -- Kanada.
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773576889
0773576886