Description
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: The Exchange University / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher
1 The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/Learning Regime / Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades
2 Academic Culture and the Research-Intensive University: The Impact of Commercialism and Scientism / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher
3 The New Production of Researchers / Brigitte Gemme and Yves Gingras
4 Public Policy in Ontario Higher Education: From Frost to Harris / Paul Axelrod
5 How Fares Equity in an Era of Academic Capitalism? The Role of Contingent Faculty / Linda Muzzin
6 Reclaiming Our Centre: Toward a Robust Defence of Academic Autonomy / Janice Newson and Claire Polster
7 “Gender at Work” in Teacher Education: History, Society, and Global Reform / Jo-Anne Dillabough and Sandra Acker
8 The Political Economy of Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of British Columbia Law School / Theresa Shanahan
9 Keeping the Commons in Academic Culture: Protecting the Knowledge Commons from the Enclosure of the Knowledge Economy / Jennifer Sumner
Conclusion / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher
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