Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Academic Barbarism: Practice and Transmission
3. Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
4. Academic Barbarism and the Literature of Concealment: Roberto Bolaño and W. G. Sebald
5. Aaron Swartz, New Technologies and The Myth of Open Access
6. Academic Barbarism and the Asian University: The Case of Hong Kong
7. Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for universities in Ireland, the UK, the US, Japan and Hong Kong. He has published widely in education, literary studies and philosophy.

Zusammenfassung

The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael O'Sullivan
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781349714476
• ISBN: 978-1-349-71447-6
• Seiten: 175
• Abmessung: 122 mm x 221 mm x 13 mm
• Gewicht: 245 g
• Illustration: X, 175 p.
• Serien: Palgrave Critical University Studies; Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Erwachsenenbildung; B, Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Education, philosophy of education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Organization and Leadership, higher education, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, School management and organization, School administration, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Educational strategies and policy