Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19
ISBN: 9783031123702
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Springer International Publishing
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Education;

This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda consistent with the principles of disaster capitalism. This crisis deeply impacts what and how students in the United States learn, who gets to learn, and the very mission of the academy. Chapters also address neoliberalism as a policy statement that has reshaped and continues to shape higher education in the United States and in much of Western societies.

Marina Vujnovic is Professor of Journalism and Communication at Monmouth University, USA.
Johanna E. Foster is Associate Professor of Sociology and Helen Bennett McMurray Endowed Chair of Social Ethics at Monmouth University, USA.

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