Political Economy Of Higher Education Research Articles

Class, race and gender and the construction of postsecondary curricula in the United States: Social movement, professionalization and political economic theories of curricular change

In this paper I briefly consider what I see as the standard conceptions of curricular formation in us post-secondary education: demographic faculty and institutional responses to changes in student populations ; faculty as professional and scholarly actors who shape curricula according to the logic of their fields or disciplines; faculty and institutions responding to broad technological and economic changes. I suggest variations in these standard interpretations that attend to social movements, class structures and political and economic forces. When I use social movement theory, draw on Foucault and give special attention to professorial pleasures of analysis'. When I examine the political economy of higher education, I draw on the rich literature that addresses funding patterns and power structures in business and industry, and us government mission agencies with an interest in higher education. I point out how these theories might provide us with a more complete understanding of curricular formation in post-secondary education.

The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education.

The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education.

The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education

The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education

The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education.

The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities

The political economy of higher education in South Africa

The political economy of higher education in South Africa

The Political Economy of Higher Education: An ‘Austrian’ Aalysis

One of the most wasteful inefficiencies of the nationalised industries is that, isolated from price signals in the market, they make mistaken investment decisions. State‐run higher education is no different. Excessive investment, following the Robbins Report of 1963, has resulted in over‐staffing, but university ‘managers’– vice‐chancellors, heads of department, etc. – have no incentive to maximise efficiency by firing less desirable members of staff. It is the better qualified lecturers who are leaving, bribed with severance payments, to take up jobs in the private sector.

The Changing Political Economy of Higher Education and Its Significance for United States Agriculture

FRANCIS BACON observed that adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Higher education in the United States today, whether viewed from a financial, social, political, or to some extent even from an academic perspective, is certainly showing the marks of adversity. If Bacon implied any inverse proportionality it is difficult to detect, for comforts are few and hopes, while numerous, are far from being fulfilled.