| Title : | The university in ruins | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Bill Readings, Author | | Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press | | Publication Date: | 1996 | | Pagination: | x, 238 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-92952-4 | | General note: | Includes index (p. [229]-238)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-227) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Education, Higher - Aims and objectives
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States
Education, Higher x - Social aspects
Higher education and state
Nationalism and education
| | Class number: | 378.001 | | Abstract: | Jeremiads abound concerning the "betrayal" and "bankruptcy" of the project of liberal education.' Teaching, we are told, is undervalued in favor of research, while research is less and less in touch with the demands of the real world, or with the comprehension of the "common reader." Nor is this as some academics seem to believe just the lament of the middlebrow media, motivated by media commentators' resentment at their failure to gain access to the hallowed groves of academe. Forever deprived of the chance to sit on the Faculty Promotions Committee, such pundits, it is claimed, take out their frustrations on the University, constrained as they are to content themselves with huge salaries and comfortable working conditions. The causes of the media's sniping at the University are not individual resentments but a more general uncertainty as to the role of the University and the very nature of the standards by which it should be judged as an institution. It is no coincidence that such attacks are intensifying in North America at the same time as the structure of the academic institution is shifting. It is not merely that the professorial is being proletarianized as a body and the number of short-term or part-time contracts at major institutions increased (with the concomitant precipitation of a handful of highly paid stars).- The production of knowledge within the University is equally uncertain. | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=1480 |
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