Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

• Main Author: O’Sullivan, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
• Subjects: Education.; Literature, Modern > 20th century.; Philosophy and social sciences.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in ...