EAN: 9780820479149

HIGHER EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS - PAUL R GEISL...

The central argument of this book posits that today's American university is dysfunctional or 
perhaps  «Dysacademic.» This affective disorder is traced to the increasingly corporate and
performative utilities of many contemporary institutions of higher education. Today's
commodified and closed university doesn't transform the self as it once did  when the pedagogy
of Bildung emphasized the development of character and culture by teaching «the rules of
thought.» Rather  the dysfunctional American university controls  constricts  and normalizes
its subjects according to hyper-structured  accreditation-happy  economically driven
disciplinary specialization  and a priori established standards and outcomes that work to
define and transform the effective utility of higher education. After deconstructing the
discourse of Dysacademia  the author outlines his vision for a third curriculum  one wrought
with complexity  self-organization  and critical  open spaces.

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