Routledge handbook of the sociology of higher education

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Title
"Routledge handbook of the sociology of higher education"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by James E. Côté and Sarah Pickard
Publisher
  • Routledge
  • 2nd ed
Publication Year
  • 2022
Book size
26 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk
Other Title
  • Handbook of the sociology of higher education

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Summary: "Higher education has come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years, assailed with demands for greater efficiency, accountability, cost-reduction and, above all, job training. Drawing upon examples from across the world with an emphasis on Anglo-American higher education systems, this handbook employs sociological approaches to address these pressing concerns. The second edition is thoroughly updated and adds several new chapters to shed further light on the transformations wrought by the interrelated processes of massification, vocationalization and marketisation that have swept through universities in the wake of neoliberal reforms introduced by governments since the 1980s. The handbook explores recent developments in higher education systems and policy as well as the everyday experiences of students and staff and ongoing problems of inequality and diversity within universities. In doing so, the chapters address a number of current issues concerning the legitimacy of higher educational cred

Includes bibliographical references and index

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