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Inside the teaching machine : rhetoric and the globalization of the U.S. public research university / Catherine Chaput.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaput, Catherine.
- Series:
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Research--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that unevenly combines corporate, state, and civil interests. As the corporatization of U.S. universities becomes nearly impossible to deny, the common response from many academics has been a superior stand against the contamination of the professional ideal by tainted cor
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Historical Materialist Rhetoricand the Hermeneutics of Valuation; PART I; 1. Historicizing the U.S. Public Research University:Industrial Capitalism and the Professional Ideal; 2. Monopoly Capitalism, Globalization, andUniversity Transformation: A Plea against Nostalgia; PART II; 3. The Collusion of Economic and Cultural Systems:Globalization and the University; 4. The Rhetoric of University Missions: Globalizing Economic Consent,Commodifying Multiculturalism, and Privatizing the Social Good174; PART III
- 5. Working- Class Professionalism:Toward an Historical Materialist PedagogyNotes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8010-8
- OCLC:
- 424524853
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