Culture and Ideology in Higher Education: Advancing a Critical Agenda

by William G. Tierney

This book is a unique invitation to rethink some of the most basic assumptions of higher education. The essays demonstrate that researchers have often concentrated on issues of effectiveness and efficiency in academe, rather than on issues of social justice and democracy. Participants in and organizations connected with higher education operate in ongoing patterns of struggle that embody competing conceptions of reality and what counts for knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275934691
• ISBN13: 9780275934699
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"