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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An important work on the higher education system and its discontents. Why are our schools operating as corporations, and what does this mean for the future of education? The author examines the history of academic freedom, then moves into the evolution of the school from an institution of higher learning directed in large part by the faculty to a corporation in the business of delivering degrees directed in large part by the administrators who are more interested in concrete measures of success, such as numbers of butts in seats, then in more nebulous ones, such as the quality of education delivered. Should be required reading for everyone who has been subjected to the ubiquitous propaganda machine that trumpets the evils of modern higher education; if you have ever bemoaned the "indoctrination" or snarked about the easy life of an academic, or asked why we need humanities education anyway, this book is just what you need. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras--offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing structure of the academy itself. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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