The Experience of Neoliberal Education

Published by Berghahn Books 2018

The Experience of Neoliberal Education

Edited by: Bonnie Urciuoli

Volume 4 in the series Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785338649

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About this book

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.

Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified "experiences" have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience.

Author / Editor information

Bonnie Urciuoli is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Hamilton College. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class, and language and particularly the discursive construction of "diversity" in U.S. higher education.

Reviews

“[An] excellent and very significant volume….a remarkably interesting, well-argued, ethnographically rich book of real weight and consequence...A highlight is the combination of more ethnographic, analytical chapters by faculty scholars and quite telling and affecting reflections by undergraduates (or recent graduates).” · Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
INTRODUCTION Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience Bonnie Urciuoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age Pauline Turner Strong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER 2 Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy, and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education Richard Handler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
CHAPTER 3 Empathy as Industry An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania Jack Laviolette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER 4 Dirty Work The Carnival of Service John J. Bodinger De Uriarte and Shari Jacobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
CHAPTER 5 No Good Deed Goes Uncounted A Reflection on College Volunteerism Sarah Bergbauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
CHAPTER 6 From Service-Learning to Social Innovation The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning Chaise Ladousa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
CHAPTER 7 High Hopes and Low Impact Obstacles in Student Research Anastassia Baldrige Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
CHAPTER 8 The Experience Experts Bonnie Urciuoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
CHAPTER 9 Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning Christopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CHAPTER 10 Engineering Success Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water Alex Posecznick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
CHAPTER 11 Caught between Commodification and Audit Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education Wesley Shumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 252
Keywords: Educational Studies; Anthropology (General)

eBook

Published: May 22, 2018
ISBN: 9781785338649