Download e-book for iPad: Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization by Sheila Slaughter,Brendan Cantwell,Ilkka Kauppinen

this day, approximately each point of upper schooling - together with scholar recruitment, school room guideline, school learn, administrative governance, and the keep watch over of highbrow estate - is embedded in a political economic climate with hyperlinks to the marketplace and the country. educational capitalism deals a robust framework for figuring out this courting. basically, it permits us to appreciate larger education's shift from developing scholarship and studying as a public solid to producing wisdom as a commodity to be monetized in marketplace actions. In educational Capitalism within the Age of Globalization, Brendan Cantwell and Ilkka Kauppinen gather a global group of prime students to discover the profound ways that globalization and the information financial system have reworked larger schooling world wide. The booklet deals an in-depth overview of the theoretical foundations of educational capitalism, in addition to new empirical insights into how the method of educational capitalism has performed out. Chapters handle educational capitalism from ancient, transnational, nationwide, and native perspectives.
Each contributor bargains attention-grabbing insights into either new conceptual interpretations of and sensible institutional and nationwide responses to educational capitalism. Incorporating years of study via influential theorists and development at the paintings of Sheila Slaughter, Larry Leslie, and Gary Rhoades, educational Capitalism within the Age of Globalization offers a provocative replace for knowing educational capitalism. The publication will entice an individual attempting to make experience of latest greater education.