Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development - Competitive Advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these processes through theoretical and empirical analyses. Accordingly, the work highlights topics that will be of interest to a wide range of audiences. Concepts addressed include stratification, privatization of formerly public subsidies, preference for "high tech" academic fields, and the vocationalization of the curriculum (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: [STEM] fields, selected professions, and business) rather than the liberal arts or the Humboldtian vision of the university. Across national contexts and analytic methods, authors analyze the growth of national policies that see universities as a sub set of economic development, casting universities as corporate research laboratories and education as central to job creation. Throughout the volume, the authors make the case that national and regional approaches to politics and markets result in different experiences of consequences of academic capitalism. While these shifts serve the interests of some institutions, others find themselves struggling to meet ever-greater expectations with stagnant or shrinking resource bases.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Higher Education Dynamics, 45
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	Sheila Slaughter • Barrett Jay Taylor
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	360
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-21511-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	3-319-21511-6
Barcode:	9783319215112

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