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The Corporate Campus
Preface INTRODUCTION What Commercialization Means for Education James L. Turk PART I - WHAT IS AT STAKE? What is at Stake? Universities in Context Ursula Franklin Academic Freedom or C
Love, Hope, Optimism
An Ottawa Citizen Notable Book for 2012 When Jack Layton died unexpectedly in the summer of 2011, millions of people mourned the loss of a man who had emerged as a much-loved political leader. They saw him as someone who combined values they shared with a personal style they admired. In this book, co-editors James L. Turk and Charis Wahl have gathered stories and anecdotes about Jack Layton from a wide range of people who knew him at different stages during his life and career. These contributions offer an engaging and informal biographical portrait of Jack as a young man in Hudson, Quebec, as a lecturer at Ryerson University, as a Toronto city councillor, and as the leader of the NDP. The c...
The Idea of an African University
Bevat: Liberal versus practical orientation of curriculum development / Olusegun Oladipo ; Lessons of world history of the university for Nigeria today / Joseph Kenny ; Human capital in Nigerian universities : the presence of the past and the thrust of the future / Ifeanyi Onyeonoru ; University decline and its reasons : imperatives for change and relevance / Francis Egbokhare ; Knowledge production, cultural identity and globalization : African universities and the challenges of authenticity and transformation in the twenty-first century / Kolawole A. Owolabi ; Idealism versus pragmatism in the production of knowledge in Nigerian universities / Olatunji A. Oyeshile ; The university and the African crisis of morality : lessons from Nigeria / Ogbo Ugwuanyi ; Subjectivity, hermeneutics and culture / George F. Mclean ; Value systems and the interest groups of a university / Francis M. Isichei ; The place of theology in the university curriculum / Anthony A. Akinwale.
Values in Conflict
An impassioned defence of the liberal arts.
Selling Out
In a powerful defence of the values that define education, Howard Woodhouse uses concrete and vivid examples to show how universities in Canada have been engulfed by the market model of education and how administrators have done little to resist this trend.
