Flexible education and the discipline of the market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12214481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark A Stevenson (0000-0002-8955-0855, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-323 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/095183999236169 |
| OpenAlex | W1974693400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This paper explores the contours of the current policy debate in Germany over higher education reform, and the issues it raises for an anthropological understanding of the role of higher education in late capitalist societies. In Germany as elsewhere, the massification of higher education was intimately bound up with the postwar trajectory of political capitalism, and its repercussions have continued to transform the moral economy of identity, citizenship, and work both within and outside of the educational "dream factory." What I wish to explore here is the articulation of higher education reform with neo-liberal projects for economic innovation and flexibilization which have driven much of the policy discussion in the 1990s. These projects seek to rewrite the social contract in the higher education sector in favor of a more instrumentalized regime of institutional and pedagogical models aimed at labor market coordination along "Anglo-Saxon" (i.e., Anglo-American) lines. The German situation is instructive in that, because of its history and structure, the German higher education system now stands on the verge of potential transformations which have long been at work in the moral and political economy of higher education in the United States, bringing new perspectives to the "already-existing" nature of such trends in Germany
Articulation (sociology · Capitalism · Citizenship · Education policy · German · Higher education · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarious work · Sociology · Work (physics · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Sociology and Education Studies
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2008 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |