Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market
The Breakdown of Scientific Thought
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As 'market principles' are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of 'managerialism', many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and replaced by ideological opportunism and economic exped…
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Weitere Autoren: Hasselberg, Ylva (Hrsg.) / Waluszewski, Alexandra (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-94-007-5249-8
- EAN: 9789400752498
- Produktnummer: 18249359
- Verlag: Springer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 221 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'942 KB
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