Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market The Breakdown of Scientific Thought /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rider, Sharon (Editor), Hasselberg, Ylva (Editor), Waluszewski, Alexandra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Higher Education Dynamics, 39
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Economic policy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Economic Policy.

This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that th...