The advance of academic capitalism in the twenty-first century : an economic and philosophical account of the challenges facing the university today

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The advance of academic capitalism in the twenty-first century : an economic and philosophical account of the challenges facing the university today

Garth Allen ; with a foreword by Jorge Ferrao

Edwin Mellen Press, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contributes to the necessary and on-going tradition of inquiry into the central purpose and form of the modern day university by exploring the connections of people within universities and the political economic impact universities have within the global context in their own localities.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction: Trust, Risk and Uncertainty: an education
  • -Trust, risk, uncertainty and economic theory
  • -Trust, incomplete information and procedural uncertainty
  • 2. The Secret Garden of Assessment and Grading in Higher Education
  • -Grading student's work: an uncertain business
  • -Time and uncertainty
  • -Choosing a grade: an anxious moment
  • -Bargaining for a grade
  • -Expectation, learning and experience Ignorance
  • -Theory and empiricism in grading coursework in higher education
  • 3. An Economics of Privacy: Or, How Professors Lear About Their Students
  • -Introduction Property rights and forced revelations
  • -The risks of self-revelation: can universities respect non-discreditable disclosures
  • -Trust, reputation and expectation
  • -Mistrust, due caution and the 'pressure of time'
  • 4. Stress and Strain in Academic Life:
  • -Introduction: grading students, valuing people
  • -Stress, strain and coping: an academic health warning
  • -Economic theory, decision making and assessment in HE
  • -Experiences and perceptions of assessment
  • 5. Socially Responsible Transformations
  • -Can universities have a conscience?
  • -Social responsibility, the firm and the university:
  • -the games organizations should play
  • -The socially responsible university: virtuous, virtual or fantasy?
  • 6. Academic Capitalism in the Global Age:
  • AND MORE.

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  • NCID
    BB14103239
  • ISBN
    • 9780773444829
  • LCCN
    2013936585
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Lampeter
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 394 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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