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

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 e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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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