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Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

Michael O’Sullivan

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2017
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Filosofía y teoría de la educación
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9781349714476
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The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists’ representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.

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