Selling out : academic freedom and the corporate market /

Selling Out demonstrates that the logics of value of the market and of universities are not only different but opposed to one another. By introducing the reader to a variety of cases, some well known and others not, Woodhouse explains how academic freedom and university autonomy are being subordinat...

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Main Author: Woodhouse, Howard Robert, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Quuen's University Press, ©2009
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780773576889
0773576886
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Market Model of Education and the Threat to Academic Freedom
  • 2. Marketing Professor Meets the Market
  • 3. Taking on Big Pharma
  • 4. Commercializing Research and Losing Autonomy
  • 5. Going beyond the Market: Evaluating Teaching by Evaluating Learning
  • 6. Value Program in Theory and Practice
  • 7. People's Free University as an Alternative Model.