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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
This text provides a framework for understanding higher education in the US and other western countries since the 1970s whereby the logic of the market place has increasingly come to dominate all arenas and, in context, the education system. The author calls this process "commodification" and he describes the transformation of universities in the US and elsewhere as they attempt to accomodate the enforced changes on their academic lives and those of their students.; The book chronicles changes with the increasing focus on career and the movement towards the instrumental functions of education; the financial crisis and the development of a more corporate approach to education; of consumption that produce universities heavy with expensive, well-equipped and powerful administrations and decreasing numbers of ever more disenfranchised faculty.
Abstract: A practical guide to instructional development for individual learning for university administrators, faculty members, and students involved in academic innovation emphasizes specific procedures and actual experiences, rather than theories and hypothetical examples. The 7 text chapter present information and guidelines concerning the basic elements of a sucessful individualized instruction program; requirements for organizational changes in academic philosophy; basic design inputs, project development, and the establishment of the instructional operational sequence; design and implementation of evaluation instruments and procedures; the instructional evaluation component and the intrepretation of evaluation data; cost-effectiveness and accountability (exemplified by a case study); and the current status of and prospects for individualized higher education. Information on institutional policies with respect to the use of copyrightable materials, royalties, and on the logistics, hardware, and budgeting in independent learning facilities, are appended. (wz).
This book features a group of top-notch philosophers tackling some of the biggest questions in higher education: What role should the liberal arts have in a college education? Should colleges orient themselves to the educational demands of the business sector? What is the role of highly selective colleges in the public sphere? To what extent should they be subsidized directly, or indirectly, by the public? Should they simply teach students skills and academic knowledge, or should they play a role in shaping character, and if so to what end? Should highly selective colleges admissions practices give an edge to racial minorities, or legacies, or poor students? How much should the public purse ...
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