Universities

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Counting Out The Scholars

Counting Out The Scholars

The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education

Canada’s universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these … 274 View
Decolonizing Academia

Decolonizing Academia

Poverty, Oppression, and Pain

Poetic, confrontational and radical, Decolonizing Academia speaks to those who have been taught to doubt themselves because of the politics of censorship, violence and silence that sustain the … 148 View
Degrees of Failure

Degrees of Failure

University Education in Decline

In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show … 152 View
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Do Canadian Universities Work?

Do Canadian Universities Work?

From: Campus Confidential

An analysis on the question do canadian universities work separated into the following areas: 35 Putting Bums On Seats Is the Number-One Priority 36 The Perils of Athletics 37 University … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Edubusiness and Edutainment

Edubusiness and Edutainment

Wealthy Benefactors and Sporting Contributions to the Campus Party

From: Degrees of Failure

The rise of the corporate edutainment university portends something new and different that goes well beyond the existence of a social side in college life. Changes in the policies and programs … 33 $3.30 Add
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Educators and Education at a Distance

Educators and Education at a Distance

The High-Tech Classroom and the New Mediated Learning

From: Degrees of Failure

If we continue pouring resources into an education at a distance centred on the “efficiency” of machine technology our universities will continue to replicate the computerized … 17 $1.70 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

From: In Defiance

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Epilogue

Epilogue

Twenty-One Recommendations for the Future

From: Campus Confidential

The authors outline their recommendations about the future of universities in Canada ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Excellence?

Excellence?

From: In Defiance

When neoliberals and orthodox conservatives talk about the need for excellence in universities, what kind of elitism are they thinking about? Their vision for universities, being similar to their … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Foreword

Foreword

From: Counting Out The Scholars

Defines Performance Indicators as they relate to universities and describes the effect these have had on the nature of universities, concludes that the effect is negative. Outlines arguments that … ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Foreword

Foreword

From: In Defiance

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Glossary

Glossary

From: In Defiance

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Good Sense & Statistics at War

Good Sense & Statistics at War

From: Counting Out The Scholars

Outlines seven extended arguments about Pis: [1] Can Pis help build public post-secondary education? [2] Could and should Pis help make post-secondary education more "nimble" and … ; 27 $2.70 Add
In Defiance

In Defiance

On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will … ; 186 View
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In Defiance

In Defiance

From: In Defiance

The government moves against the strike. But students are joined by tens of thousands of citizens banging pots and pans in the streets night after night. ; 14 $1.40 Add