Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Slaughter, Sheila; Rhoades, Gary
Titel	Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education
Quelle	(2009), (384 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8018-7949-4
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Social Systems; Educational Change; Social Networks; Educational Practices; Educational Policy; School Business Relationship; Commercialization; Educational Administration; Research and Development; Institutional Mission; Governance; Textbook Content; Change Strategies; Organizational Change; Knowledge Economy; Knowledge Management; Technology Transfer; Organizational Theories; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungsreform; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Bildungspraxis; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Forschung und Entwicklung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Lehrbuchtext; Lösungsstrategie; Organisationswandel; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Wissensmanagement; Technologietransfer; Organisationstheorie; USA
Abstract	As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In "Academic Capitalism and the New Economy," higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. higher education institutions in the knowledge-based economy and analyze the efforts of colleges and universities to develop, market, and sell research products, educational services, and consumer goods in the private marketplace. Slaughter and Rhoades track changes in policy and practice, revealing new social networks and circuits of knowledge creation and dissemination, as well as new organizational structures and expanded managerial capacity to link higher education institutions and markets. They depict an ascendant academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime expressed in faculty work, departmental activity, and administrative behavior. Clarifying the regime's internal contradictions, they note the public subsidies embedded in new revenue streams and the shift in emphasis from serving student customers to leveraging resources from them. Defining the terms of academic capitalism in the new economy, this groundbreaking study offers essential insights into the trajectory of American higher education. (Contains 5 line drawings.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10