The Experience of Neoliberal Education / / ed. by Bonnie Urciuoli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Baldrige, Anastassia,; Bergbauer, Sarah,; Bodinger De Uriarte, John J.,; Cai, Christopher,; Handler, Richard,; Jacobson, Shari,; Ladousa, Chaise,; Laviolette, Jack,; Majumdar, Usnish,; Posecznick, Alex,; Shumar, Wesley,; Turner Strong, Pauline,; Urciuoli, Bonnie,
• HerausgeberIn: Urciuoli, Bonnie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

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 supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience -- CHAPTER 1 John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age -- CHAPTER 2 Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy, and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education -- CHAPTER 3 Empathy as Industry An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania -- CHAPTER 4 Dirty Work The Carnival of Service -- CHAPTER 5 No Good Deed Goes Uncounted A Reflection on College Volunteerism -- CHAPTER 6 From Service-Learning to Social Innovation The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning -- CHAPTER 7 High Hopes and Low Impact Obstacles in Student Research -- CHAPTER 8 The Experience Experts -- CHAPTER 9 Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning -- CHAPTER 10 Engineering Success Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water -- CHAPTER 11 Caught between Commodification and Audit Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education -- Index