While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.
While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.
James E. Côté is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.
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Introduction PART I: The Rise of Pseudo-Vocationalism 1. A History of a Mission Adrift: The Idea of a University Subverted o The University in Historical Perspective: The First Millennium o The Drift Associated with Massification o The Drift toward Vocationalism o The Drift toward Corporatization o The Drift Associated with Social Engineering o The Spoils of the Culture Wars o Re-engaging the University o Conclusion: Into the Second Millennium of the University 2. Stakeholder Relations: The Educational Forum o Conflict and Complicity: Case Studies o Conflicts in the Arena o Complicity in the Grandstands: The Scourge of Human o Conclusion: Whither Free Enquiry? PART II: Issues Associated with the Drift to Pseudo-Vocationalism 1. Standards: Schools without Scholarship? o The Student Side of the Disengagement Compact o The Teacher / Learning Environment Side of the Disengagement Compact o The Two-Tiered System: The Spread of the BA-lite in the Credentialist Era o Conclusion: Preserving Scholarship 2. Universities: Crisis, What Crisis? o Defining the University's Crisis o Shooting the Messenger o Conclusion: 'Captain, we are off course!' 'Nonsense, you are imagining things.' 3. Students: Is Disengagement Inevitable? o Get Used to It! It Is Unrealistic to Expect More o Students Have Busy Lives o It's Always Been Like This: Historical Considerations o There Are No Disengagement Problems o Students Are Smarter Now and Just Bored o Professor Are Bad Teachers: It's Their Fault o Variation in Disengagement: New Empirical Evidence o Conclusion: Enough Excuses 4. Technologies: Will They Save the Day? o Claims Regarding New Technologies o The Evidence o Conclusions: Mixed Support and Moral Entrepreneurs PART III: The Way Forward into the New Millennium 1. Recommendations and Conclusions: Our Stewardship of the System o What to Do o What Not to Do: Managing the Line between Mass and Élite Universities o Conclusion Notes Index
Introduction PART I: The Rise of Pseudo-Vocationalism 1. A History of a Mission Adrift: The Idea of a University Subverted o The University in Historical Perspective: The First Millennium o The Drift Associated with Massification o The Drift toward Vocationalism o The Drift toward Corporatization o The Drift Associated with Social Engineering o The Spoils of the Culture Wars o Re-engaging the University o Conclusion: Into the Second Millennium of the University 2. Stakeholder Relations: The Educational Forum o Conflict and Complicity: Case Studies o Conflicts in the Arena o Complicity in the Grandstands: The Scourge of Human o Conclusion: Whither Free Enquiry? PART II: Issues Associated with the Drift to Pseudo-Vocationalism 1. Standards: Schools without Scholarship? o The Student Side of the Disengagement Compact o The Teacher / Learning Environment Side of the Disengagement Compact o The Two-Tiered System: The Spread of the BA-lite in the Credentialist Era o Conclusion: Preserving Scholarship 2. Universities: Crisis, What Crisis? o Defining the University's Crisis o Shooting the Messenger o Conclusion: 'Captain, we are off course!' 'Nonsense, you are imagining things.' 3. Students: Is Disengagement Inevitable? o Get Used to It! It Is Unrealistic to Expect More o Students Have Busy Lives o It's Always Been Like This: Historical Considerations o There Are No Disengagement Problems o Students Are Smarter Now and Just Bored o Professor Are Bad Teachers: It's Their Fault o Variation in Disengagement: New Empirical Evidence o Conclusion: Enough Excuses 4. Technologies: Will They Save the Day? o Claims Regarding New Technologies o The Evidence o Conclusions: Mixed Support and Moral Entrepreneurs PART III: The Way Forward into the New Millennium 1. Recommendations and Conclusions: Our Stewardship of the System o What to Do o What Not to Do: Managing the Line between Mass and Élite Universities o Conclusion Notes Index
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