Accountability, pragmatic aims, and the American university
By: Ana M. Martínez-Alemán
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780415991629; 9780415991636; 9780203157206
Subjects: Educational accountability; University autonomy; Academic freedom; Higher education and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-127) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The democratic purposes of the American university; title: The emergence and transformation of the academic profession : the roots of our discontent; title: Teaching, professionalization and the managed university; title: The rise of managerialism; title: The legacy of the transformative era : accountability and the erosion of professional autonomy; title: Epilogue: pragmatic sensibility and resolutions.