{"product_id":"the-experience-of-neoliberal-education-9781785338632","title":"The Experience of Neoliberal Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThrough ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified \"experiences\" have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[An] excellent and very significant volume….a remarkably interesting, well-argued, ethnographically rich book of real weight and consequence...A highlight is the combination of more ethnographic, analytical chapters by faculty scholars and quite telling and affecting reflections by undergraduates (or recent graduates).”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Don Brenneis\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBonnie Urciuoli\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePauline Turner Strong\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision: Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard Handler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Empathy as Industry: An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJack LaViolette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dirty Work: The Carnival of Service\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari Jacobson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e No Good Deed Goes Uncounted: A Reflection on College Volunteerism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Bergbauer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Service Learning to Social Innovation: The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChaise LaDousa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e High Hopes and Low Impact: Obstacles in Student Research\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnastassia Baldrige\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Experience Experts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBonnie Urciuoli\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Engineering Success: Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlex Posecznick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Caught Between Commodification and Audit: Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education  \u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWesley Shumar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042409939287,"sku":"9781785338632","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785338632.jpg?v=1750954063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-experience-of-neoliberal-education-9781785338632","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}