Selling Out
Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- Higher
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773535800
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $50.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773585416
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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 subordinated to corporate demands and how faculty have attempted to resist this subjugation. He argues that the mechanistic discourse of corporate culture has replaced the language of education - subject-based disciplines and the professors who teach them have become "resource units," students have become "educational consumers," and curricula have become "program packages." Graduates are now "products" and "competing in the global economy" has replaced the search for truth.
About the author
Howard Woodhouse is professor of educational foundations and co-director of the University of Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit.