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Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Knowledge for Sale
Author: Lawrence Busch
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203607X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this. A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget cut. In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach. The rationale for the current thinking, Busch explains, comes from neoliberal economics, which calls for reorganizing society around the needs of the market. The market-influenced changes to higher education include shifting the cost of education from the state to the individual, turning education from a public good to a private good subject to consumer demand; redefining higher education as a search for the highest-paying job; and turning scholarly research into a competition based on metrics including number of citations and value of grants. Students, administrators, and scholars have begun to think of themselves as economic actors rather than seekers of knowledge. Arguing for active resistance to this takeover, Busch urges us to burst the neoliberal bubble, to imagine a future not dictated by the market, a future in which there is a more educated citizenry and in which the old dichotomies—market and state, nature and culture, and equality and liberty—break down. In this future, universities value learning and not training, scholarship grapples with society's most pressing problems rather than quick fixes for corporate interests, and democracy is enriched by its educated and engaged citizens.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203607X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this. A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget cut. In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach. The rationale for the current thinking, Busch explains, comes from neoliberal economics, which calls for reorganizing society around the needs of the market. The market-influenced changes to higher education include shifting the cost of education from the state to the individual, turning education from a public good to a private good subject to consumer demand; redefining higher education as a search for the highest-paying job; and turning scholarly research into a competition based on metrics including number of citations and value of grants. Students, administrators, and scholars have begun to think of themselves as economic actors rather than seekers of knowledge. Arguing for active resistance to this takeover, Busch urges us to burst the neoliberal bubble, to imagine a future not dictated by the market, a future in which there is a more educated citizenry and in which the old dichotomies—market and state, nature and culture, and equality and liberty—break down. In this future, universities value learning and not training, scholarship grapples with society's most pressing problems rather than quick fixes for corporate interests, and democracy is enriched by its educated and engaged citizens.
The Breeder's Gazette
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Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Defense Mapping Agency Nautical Charts and Publications Public Sale
Author: United States. Defense Mapping Agency
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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General Public Acts of Congress Respecting the Sale and Disposition of the Public Lands
Author: United States
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Sale Or Transfer of Public Lands to State and Local Governments for Public Purposes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Tooele Planning Unit Public Land Sale U-51482, Pony Express Resource Area, Land Report, Environmental Assessment (EA).
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Public Auction Sale
Author: Thomas L (Thomas Lindsay) Elder
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014361851
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014361851
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Builder
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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National Imagery and Mapping Agency Nautical Charts, Public Sale
Author: United States. National Aeronautical Charting Office
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Category : Nautical charts
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Nautical charts
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Review of the 1983 Sale of Public Land in Nevada by the Bureau of Land Management
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
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Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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