The Experience of Neoliberal Education (eBook)

Bonnie Urciuoli is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Hamilton College. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class, and language and particularly the discursive construction of "diversity" in U.S. higher education.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience
Bonnie Urciuoli

Chapter 1. John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age
Pauline Turner Strong

Chapter 2. Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision: Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education
Richard Handler

Chapter 3. Empathy as Industry: An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania
Jack LaViolette

Chapter 4. Dirty Work: The Carnival of Service
John J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari Jacobson

Chapter 5. No Good Deed Goes Uncounted: A Reflection on College Volunteerism
Sarah Bergbauer

Chapter 6. From Service Learning to Social Innovation: The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning
Chaise LaDousa

Chapter 7. High Hopes and Low Impact: Obstacles in Student Research
Anastassia Baldrige

Chapter 8. The Experience Experts
Bonnie Urciuoli

Chapter 9. Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning
Christopher Cai and Usnish Majumdar

Chapter 10. Engineering Success: Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water
Alex Posecznick

Chapter 11. Caught Between Commodification and Audit: Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education  
Wesley Shumar

Index