The Experience of Neoliberal Education
The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified experiences have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supp…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-864-9
- EAN: 9781785338649
- Produktnummer: 25153108
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'047 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 4
Über den Autor
Bonnie Urciuoli is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Hamilton College. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class, and language and particularly the discursive construction of diversity in U.S. higher education.
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