Zombie Graduates Driven by Rickshaw Faculty--A Qualitative Case Study: Private Universities in Urban Bangladesh

Autor/inn/en	Husain, Matt M.; Osswald, Karina
Titel	Zombie Graduates Driven by Rickshaw Faculty--A Qualitative Case Study: Private Universities in Urban Bangladesh
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 14 (2016) 7, S.1020-1035 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210316666442
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Case Studies; Private Colleges; Universities; Urban Areas; Neoliberalism; Privatization; Administrative Organization; Ethnography; College Graduates; Outcomes of Education; Middle Class; Psychological Patterns; Governance; Politics of Education; Observation; Focus Groups; Part Time Faculty; Commercialization; Global Approach; Interviews; Bangladesh + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Privathochschule; University; Universität; Urban area; Stadtregion; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Ethnografie; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Mittelschicht; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Beobachtung; Globales Denken; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Bangladesch
Abstract	Bangladesh's post-secondary education has become a hunting ground for local economic conglomerates and their transnational allies. Applying a holistic lens helps to understand the factors and short-term effects of blindly applying neo-liberal induced deregulation and privatization that constructed a mushrooming "McDonaldization" culture in the local post-secondary setting (Ball, 2003; Levin, 1998). The findings of a six-week-long study on Bangladeshi private universities, involving 32 interviews with students and faculty, civil society, and business community representatives and over 100 hours of ethnographic observation, contradict the ideal roles of universities in Bangladeshi society as they lead to demands that neither the universities nor the society can satisfy (Boulton and Lucas, 2011; Collini, 2012). These findings indicate this system constructs "zombie graduates" (Husain, forthcoming), who are entitlement happy yet lack critical understanding and suffer from acute "philosophical poverty" (Husain, forthcoming). In addition, this paper highlights the psyche of upper-middle-class local students and how they reinforce a "habitus" for effective domination (Bourdieu, 1989, 1997). Finally, this paper critically analyses the imbalanced application of economics and philosophy in higher education governance and argues that the outcomes can hurt post-colonial Bangladeshi culture and society in the long run (Harvey, 2005; Sen, 2006). Critically, these impacts contribute to two arguments: White Men's Germ on Brown Men's Body (Husain, forthcoming) and Betrayal by the Intellectuals (Chatterjee, 2004; Orwell, 1949). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01