Beschreibung
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.
Autorenportrait
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.
Inhalt
List of illustrations Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neoliberalizing Undergraduate ExperienceBonnie Urciuoli
Chapter 1. John Deweys Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal AgePauline Turner Strong
Chapter 2. Undergraduate Research in Veblens Vision: Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher EducationRichard Handler
Chapter 3. Empathy as Industry: An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of PennsylvaniaJack LaViolette
Chapter 4. Dirty Work: The Carnival of ServiceJohn J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari Jacobson
Chapter 5. No Good Deed Goes Uncounted: A Reflection on College VolunteerismSarah Bergbauer
Chapter 6. From Service Learning to Social Innovation: The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential LearningChaise LaDousa
Chapter 7. High Hopes and Low Impact: Obstacles in Student ResearchAnastassia Baldrige
Chapter 8. The Experience ExpertsBonnie Urciuoli
Chapter 9. Moral Entanglements in Service-LearningChristopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar
Chapter 10. Engineering Success: Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of WaterAlex Posecznick
Chapter 11. Caught Between Commodification and Audit: Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education Wesley Shumar
Index
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