SOCIOL 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Academic Freedom, Classical Liberalism, Neoliberalism
31 Jan 2020
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The economy and education: education funding related to economy, support for reducing gov spending vs. support for required education funding, effect on post-secondary tuition rates, endowments and the stock market universities invest in these. Impacts ability for uni to fund itself: prov and federal government fund education in canada, economic downturns. Increase in enrollments to boost credentials: decrease in gov spending to prevent debt. Neoliberalism cont: reduction of public spending in favor of reliance on private enterprise, education, charter schools. Neoliberalism and education: k-12- decreased public funding, standardized testing (high school"s in competition with each other) From education to training: shifting goals, acquisition of knowledge vs job training, one can only be educated in the liberal arts and sciences: education and training are not inimical to one another , vocationalism. Increased popularity in applied degrees, certificates and diplomas: tangible assets (how to i increase these, once relegated to colleges, increasingly offers at uni"s.
