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Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment
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Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment

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What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate, particularly since the culture wars and Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. Where radicals once critiqued universities’ elitism, that argument has recently been turned on is head: many academic administrators and business leaders now see a university education as little more than job training for the information economy. Such pressures threaten universities’ ability to play the critical social role that justifies them. The newest addition to our Semaphore Series, is a provocative look at the central questions facing university education today. Drawing on decades of experience in the scholarly trenches, Ian Angus considers the future of academic freedom in an increasingly corporate university setting, the role of technology, interdisciplinary study, and the possibilities for critical enlightenment and solidarity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arbeiter Ring Publishing,U.S.
Country
United States
Date
15 November 2009
Pages
102
ISBN
9781894037402

What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate, particularly since the culture wars and Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. Where radicals once critiqued universities’ elitism, that argument has recently been turned on is head: many academic administrators and business leaders now see a university education as little more than job training for the information economy. Such pressures threaten universities’ ability to play the critical social role that justifies them. The newest addition to our Semaphore Series, is a provocative look at the central questions facing university education today. Drawing on decades of experience in the scholarly trenches, Ian Angus considers the future of academic freedom in an increasingly corporate university setting, the role of technology, interdisciplinary study, and the possibilities for critical enlightenment and solidarity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arbeiter Ring Publishing,U.S.
Country
United States
Date
15 November 2009
Pages
102
ISBN
9781894037402