Higher Education and Intellectual Retrogression: The Neoliberal Reign

This book critically analyses the historical evolution of ideas, perceptions, and principles on higher education, unraveling its interlinked aspects such as content, quality, standard, massification, privatization, and commercialization. It presents an original and penetrating critique of neoliberal ideas and policies since World War II, arguing that they have compromised academic quality and heralded an intellectual retrogression. The book offers a meticulous evaluation of global research evidence of decline in academic learning, quality, standards, and intellectual level. It illuminates why it is dangerous to continue clinging ideologically to neoliberal reign in education, evading or effacing the lasting and universal wisdoms and precepts of the educational reign preceding neoliberal market-oriented predominance. The book is of interest to students, teachers, researchers, academicians, higher education administration, policymakers, schoolteachers, and those interested in debates and issues around higher education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive monograph delves into the intricate historical evolution of ideas, perceptions, and principles related to higher education, shedding light on its interconnected aspects such as content, quality, standards, massification, privatization, and commercialization. It offers a critical analysis of neoliberal ideas and policies that have dominated higher education since World War II, presenting both original and insightful critiques. The volume argues that the proliferation of "academic capitalism" has led to a significant compromise in the academic quality of higher education, resulting in a comprehensive "intellectual retrogression." The book meticulously evaluates global research that provides compelling evidence of a decline in academic learning, encompassing its effort, quality, standards, and overall intellectual level and rigor. Furthermore, it illuminates the dangers of perpetuating neoliberal reign in education, as it risks evading or disregarding some of the enduring and universal wisdoms and precepts of the educational era preceding the neoliberal market-oriented predominance.

The book is of immense interest to students, teachers, researchers, academicians, higher education administration, policymakers, schoolteachers, and individuals engaged in debates and issues surrounding higher education. Its comprehensive nature and insightful perspectives make it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex dynamics of higher education and its implications for society.

Weight: 570g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032158679