University partnerships with the corporate sector : faculty experiences with for-profit matriculation pathway programs / by Carter A. Winkle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winkle, Carter A., author.

Series:

Innovation and leadership in English language teaching ; 7.

Innovation & Leadership in English Language Teaching ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Business and education--United States.

Business and education.

English language--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

Privatization in education--United States.

Privatization in education.

Contracting out--United States.

Contracting out.

Physical Description:

xiv, 281 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

Carter Winkle provides insight into the contemporary phenomena of partnerships between universities and for-profit educational service providers resulting in matriculation pathway programs for non-native English speaking students in the United States. Positive and negative implications of such partnerships are illuminated through interpretation of empirically derived narrative accounts of English language program administrators, English language teaching faculty, and academic discipline faculty working in contexts where such joint-venture matriculation pathway programs exist. The book retells stories of these academic professionals and examines how the new governance structures and practices of these programs impacted them and their work context, focusing on their institutional status, autonomy in curricular and pedagogical decision-making, and perceptions of how these new corporate initiatives affected students and their host institutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004259249

9004259244

OCLC:

858802290