The Experience of Neoliberal Education

The Experience of Neoliberal EducationThe college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through ethnography based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified "experiences" have turned students

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Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response

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