Constructing Corporatist Science

Reconstituting the Soul of American Higher Education

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2408243
AutoresGaile S Cannella, Lisa L Miller
Ano2008
Volume8
Fascículo1
Páginas24-38
Data de publicação2008-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708607305129
OpenAlexW2057782629
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas16

The authors critique the ways that science and higher education are being revisioned and reconstituted as servants of profiteering and fundamentalist power agendas. This discussion recognizes that higher education, while generating all manner of 'discovery'-oriented research, has also been the sight of contestation, debate, critiques of science, and even zealous philosophical disagreements regarding science. Higher education has been the accepted location of the postmodern turn; the recognition of diverse scientific paradigms such as constructivist, feminist, and critical sciences; and major critiques of positivist science. This academic work is not perfect and is certainly not without power struggles but is absolutely necessary. Reconstituting American higher education into a fundamentalist, corporatist institution will certainly narrow and potentially eliminate critique, philosophical diversity and science itself. Faculty in academia must take action, rather than succumbing 'to the new spirit of the age, (which seems to be) gain(ing) wealth, and forgetting all but self

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