Inside the teaching machine [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric and the globalization of the U.S. public research university / / Catherine Chaput
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Chaput Catherine
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| Titolo: |
Inside the teaching machine [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric and the globalization of the U.S. public research university / / Catherine Chaput
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 378/.050973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Education, Higher - Research - United States |
| Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States | |
| Education, Higher - Economic aspects - United States | |
| Globalization | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Historical Materialist Rhetoricand the Hermeneutics of Valuation; PART I; 1. Historicizing the U.S. Public Research University:Industrial Capitalism and the Professional Ideal; 2. Monopoly Capitalism, Globalization, andUniversity Transformation: A Plea against Nostalgia; PART II; 3. The Collusion of Economic and Cultural Systems:Globalization and the University; 4. The Rhetoric of University Missions: Globalizing Economic Consent,Commodifying Multiculturalism, and Privatizing the Social Good174; PART III |
| 5. Working- Class Professionalism:Toward an Historical Materialist PedagogyNotes; Works Cited; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that unevenly combines corporate, state, and civil interests. As the corporatization of U.S. universities becomes nearly impossible to deny, the common response from many academics has been a superior stand against the contamination of the professional ideal by tainted cor |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inside the teaching machine |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8010-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778046903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.