Overview
- Provides a critique of the current market fundamentalism when many trading blocks and national systems are facing severe fiscal constraint
- Offers potential to leverage key concepts in policy formation and contributes to future research
- Ensures broad applicability for a range of readerships through a variety of methods, including strong quantitative analyses, qualitative studies, and scholarly essays
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 45)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Patterns of Stratification
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Senior Management, Trustees, and Policymakers
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Students, Curriculum, and Faculty
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Counter-Trends
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About this book
This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these processes through theoretical and empirical analyses. Accordingly, the work highlights topics that will be of interest to a wide range of audiences. Concepts addressed include stratification, privatization of formerly public subsidies, preference for “high tech” academic fields, and the vocationalization of the curriculum (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: [STEM] fields, selected professions, and business) rather than the liberal arts or the Humboldtian vision of the university. Across national contexts and analytic methods, authors analyze the growth of national policies that see universities as a sub set of economic development, casting universities as corporate research laboratories and education as central to job creation. Throughout the volume, the authors make the case that national and regional approaches to politics and markets result in different experiences of consequences of academic capitalism. While these shifts serve the interests of some institutions, others find themselves struggling to meet ever-greater expectations with stagnant or shrinking resource bases.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development
Book Subtitle: Competitive Advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada
Editors: Sheila Slaughter, Barrett Jay Taylor
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21512-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21511-2Published: 24 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35521-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21512-9Published: 17 November 2015
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 360
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics