Class Degrees : : Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education / / Evan Watkins.

A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical mirror of high-school vocational education. Students in a vast range of institutions...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (128 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. We’re Going to the Show
  • Chapter 2. New Selves / Old Selves, Class Dreams / Class Nightmares
  • Chapter 3. School to Work to School to Work to . . .
  • Chapter 4. How the Inequality Connection Was Timed Out
  • Chapter 5. Class Processes 101: The Purpose of Competition
  • Chapter 6. Competition, Choice, and the Management of Class Doubling
  • References
  • Index