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Book Synopsis
This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.

Table of Contents

Preface

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

Index

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      Publisher University of British Columbia Press
      Published 31 October 2008
      ISBN-13 9780774815697
      978-0774815697
      ISBN-10 0774815698
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      Higher education, tertiary education

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      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

      Index

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