Harvard |

Harvard

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009176172/catalog> ?p ?o. }

Showing items 1 to 28 of 28 with 100 items per page.

catalog abstract "Where not so long ago professors "owned" the tools of scholarship, controlled the labor process, and certified the quality of our product, the process of McDonaldization has torn this relation asunder. Rapidly increasing student faculty ratios, mass classes, and the use of low-wage teaching assistants and adjunct faculty have changed the job of professor (p. 64 ff.). Faculty are pressured to recruit and retain students seen as "customers" (p. 67) and to compete with private for-profit [End Page 368] universities (p. 71-72). With declining government aid for higher education, students increasingly see education as a form of consumption and demand control, choice, and "edutainment" (p. 64 and elsewhere). This is seen most obviously in "course evaluations" which some of the authors refer to as "customer satisfaction surveys" (p. 36, 132, 147). At the same time, faculty are relentlessly pushed to publish, engage in funded research, and develop new technological competencies. Control over product is threatened as universities make demands on ownership of intellectual property including patents and licenses, publications and courseware (p. 79-81). From the perspective of faculty, McDonaldization represents a dramatic loss of pedagogical authority. Simultaneously, the state, which still pays for much of the cost of education as a "public good," is increasing demands for accountability and standards. This takes the form of schemes for standardizing promotion and tenure, quantifying and measuring the product being delivered, and attempting to assure quality.".
catalog contributor b12930112.
catalog contributor b12930113.
catalog created "2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
catalog description "Enchanting McUniversity: towards a spectacularly irrational University Quotidian / George Ritzer -- The Bureaucratization of the British University / Frank Furedi -- Accounting for anxiety: economic and cultural imperatives transforming university life / Barry Smart -- Modules and markets: education and work in the "Information Age" / Gavin Poynter -- Digital technologies and competing models of higher education / Caroline Hodges Persell -- The online campus / James Woudhuysen -- From power plays to market moves: the standard in higher education / Alan Hudson -- Total quality control: universities, language and politics / Martin Parker -- The massification of higher education / Claire Fox -- Taking the Hemlock? The new Sophistry of teacher training for higher education / Dennis Hayes -- Did I sign up for this? Comments on the New Higher Education / Mary Evans -- Feminist education: rebellion within McUniversity / Jane A. Rinehart -- Novelty and crisis in the world of McKnowledge / Joanne Finkelstein -- Does rationality gum up the educational system? / Ngure wa Mwachofi -- Hamburgerology by degrees / Robin Wynyard.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog description "Where not so long ago professors "owned" the tools of scholarship, controlled the labor process, and certified the quality of our product, the process of McDonaldization has torn this relation asunder. Rapidly increasing student faculty ratios, mass classes, and the use of low-wage teaching assistants and adjunct faculty have changed the job of professor (p. 64 ff.). Faculty are pressured to recruit and retain students seen as "customers" (p. 67) and to compete with private for-profit [End Page 368] universities (p. 71-72). With declining government aid for higher education, students increasingly see education as a form of consumption and demand control, choice, and "edutainment" (p. 64 and elsewhere). This is seen most obviously in "course evaluations" which some of the authors refer to as "customer satisfaction surveys" (p. 36, 132, 147). At the same time, faculty are relentlessly pushed to publish, engage in funded research, and develop new technological competencies. Control over product is threatened as universities make demands on ownership of intellectual property including patents and licenses, publications and courseware (p. 79-81). From the perspective of faculty, McDonaldization represents a dramatic loss of pedagogical authority. Simultaneously, the state, which still pays for much of the cost of education as a "public good," is increasing demands for accountability and standards. This takes the form of schemes for standardizing promotion and tenure, quantifying and measuring the product being delivered, and attempting to assure quality.".
catalog extent "x, 222 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "McDonaldization of higher education.".
catalog identifier "0897898567 (alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "McDonaldization of higher education.".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey,".
catalog relation "McDonaldization of higher education.".
catalog subject "378 21".
catalog subject "Education, Higher Economic aspects.".
catalog subject "LC67.6 .M395 2002".
catalog subject "Postmodernism and higher education.".
catalog subject "Universities and colleges Administration.".
catalog subject "Universities and colleges Sociological aspects.".
catalog tableOfContents "Enchanting McUniversity: towards a spectacularly irrational University Quotidian / George Ritzer -- The Bureaucratization of the British University / Frank Furedi -- Accounting for anxiety: economic and cultural imperatives transforming university life / Barry Smart -- Modules and markets: education and work in the "Information Age" / Gavin Poynter -- Digital technologies and competing models of higher education / Caroline Hodges Persell -- The online campus / James Woudhuysen -- From power plays to market moves: the standard in higher education / Alan Hudson -- Total quality control: universities, language and politics / Martin Parker -- The massification of higher education / Claire Fox -- Taking the Hemlock? The new Sophistry of teacher training for higher education / Dennis Hayes -- Did I sign up for this? Comments on the New Higher Education / Mary Evans -- Feminist education: rebellion within McUniversity / Jane A. Rinehart -- Novelty and crisis in the world of McKnowledge / Joanne Finkelstein -- Does rationality gum up the educational system? / Ngure wa Mwachofi -- Hamburgerology by degrees / Robin Wynyard.".
catalog title "The McDonaldization of higher education / edited by Dennis Hayes & Robin Wynyard.".
catalog type "text".