1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254976403321

Autore

O'Sullivan Michael

Titolo

Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality / / by Michael O'Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137547613

1137547618

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 175 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Critical University Studies, , 2662-7337

Disciplina

378.001

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Education - Philosophy

Literature, Modern - 20th century

School management and organization

Education and state

Higher Education

Educational Philosophy

Philosophy of Education

Twentieth-Century Literature

Organization and Leadership

Educational Policy and Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Academic barbarism : practice and transmission -- Academic barbarism, universities and inequality -- Academic barbarism and the literature of concealment : Roberto Bolaño and W.G. Sebald -- Aaron Swartz, new technologies and the myth of open access -- Academic barbarism and the Asian university : the case of Hong Kong.

Sommario/riassunto

The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern



university have transformed its educational philosophy and modes of transmission to the extent that the university fosters a form of academic barbarism. New theories of barbarism have emerged alongside a philosophical discourse that is redefining identity in terms of the posthuman and the beastly. Our philosophers are attempting to rescue back what remains of the human as barbarism takes hold. This book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of the economics of the university, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life are all describing a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910896084203321

Titolo

Trends in Europe and North America : the statistical yearbook of the Economic Commission for Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : United Nations, 1995-2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

314/.05

Soggetti

yearbook

statistics

Europe

USSR

United States

annuaire

statistique

URSS

États-Unis

Statistik

Wirtschaft

Maatschappij

Periodicals.

Statistics.

Former Soviet republics Statistics Periodicals

Europe Statistics Periodicals

North America Statistics Periodicals

Europe

North America



Soviet Union Former Soviet republics

Europe Economic conditions 20th century Periodicals

North America Economic conditions Periodicals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Final issue consulted.

Issue for 2005 consists of pocketbook and CD-ROM called: Thematic Atlas of Europe and North America.