The Experience of Neoliberal Education

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-863-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Urciuoli, Bonnie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience

Bonnie Urciuoli

Chapter 1. John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age

Pauline Turner Strong

Chapter 2. Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision: Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education

Richard Handler

Chapter 3. Empathy as Industry: An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania

Jack LaViolette

Chapter 4. Dirty Work: The Carnival of Service

John J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari Jacobson

Chapter 5. No Good Deed Goes Uncounted: A Reflection on College Volunteerism

Sarah Bergbauer

Chapter 6. From Service Learning to Social Innovation: The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning

Chaise LaDousa

Chapter 7. High Hopes and Low Impact: Obstacles in Student Research

Anastassia Baldrige

Chapter 8. The Experience Experts

Bonnie Urciuoli

Chapter 9. Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning

Christopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar

Chapter 10. Engineering Success: Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water

Alex Posecznick

Chapter 11. Caught Between Commodification and Audit: Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education  

Wesley Shumar

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Urciuoli, Bonnie
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.