The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning

The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning

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Americans can't get a good education for love or money, argues Stanley Aronowitz in this groundbreaking look at the structure and curriculum of higher education. Moving beyond the canon wars begun in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Aronowitz offers a vision for true higher learning that places a well-rounded education back at the center of the university's...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published March 1st 2001 by Beacon Press (first published January 1st 2000)
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