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Informationen zum Autor Adrienne S. Chan is on faculty in the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University College of the Fraser Valley and is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at the University of British Columbia. Donald Fisher is a professor in the Department of Education Studies and co-director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at UBC. Contributors: Sandra Acker, Paul Axelrod, Adrienne S. Chan, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Donald Fisher, Brigitte Gemme, Yves Gingras, Linda Muzzin, Janice Newson, Claire Polster, Gary Rhoades, Theresa Shanahan, Sheila Slaughter, Jennifer Sumner Klappentext Adrienne S. Chan is on faculty in the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University College of the Fraser Valley and is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at the University of British Columbia. Donald Fisher is a professor in the Department of Education Studies and co-director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at UBC. Contributors: Sandra Acker! Paul Axelrod! Adrienne S. Chan! Jo-Anne Dillabough! Donald Fisher! Brigitte Gemme! Yves Gingras! Linda Muzzin! Janice Newson! Claire Polster! Gary Rhoades! Theresa Shanahan! Sheila Slaughter! Jennifer Sumner Zusammenfassung This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: The Exchange University / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher1 The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/Learning Regime / Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades2 Academic Culture and the Research-Intensive University: The Impact of Commercialism and Scientism / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher3 The New Production of Researchers / Brigitte Gemme and Yves Gingras4 Public Policy in Ontario Higher Education: From Frost to Harris / Paul Axelrod5 How Fares Equity in an Era of Academic Capitalism? The Role of Contingent Faculty / Linda Muzzin 6 Reclaiming Our Centre: Toward a Robust Defence of Academic Autonomy / Janice Newson and Claire Polster7 "Gender at Work" in Teacher Education: History, Society, and Global Reform / Jo-Anne Dillabough and Sandra Acker8 The Political Economy of Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of British Columbia Law School / Theresa Shanahan9 Keeping the Commons in Academic Culture: Protecting the Knowledge Commons from the Enclosure of the Knowledge Economy / Jennifer SumnerConclusion / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald FisherIndex ...
