Corporate Agendas and Higher Education: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Autor/inn/en	Hyslop-Margison, Emery J.; Margison, Judith Ann
Titel	Corporate Agendas and Higher Education: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Quelle	(1998), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Academic Freedom; College Environment; Economic Impact; Education Work Relationship; Educational Economics; Educational Philosophy; Educational Principles; Foreign Countries; Foundations of Education; Higher Education; Institutional Autonomy; International Organizations; School Business Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Freiheit; Hochschulumwelt; Ökonomische Determinanten; Bildungsökonomie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsprinzip; Ausland; Grundlagenausbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Institutionelle Autonomie; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation
Abstract	This paper explores the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) influence on higher education policy development in Canada and examines the impact its free-market philosophy exacts on more traditional aesthetic, humanistic, and moral educational objectives. The OECD is an international body whose primary objective is to improve economic performance among its 29 member countries. By attempting to extend the corporate paradigm into the realm of education and recommending policy changes that it believes will improve economic performance, OECD encourages universities to transform traditional academic programs into technical training programs that supply the skills required by corporations. These measures not only direct society but also protect institutions from academic attack; that by promoting free-market ideology within schools and universities, OECD's recommendations insulate corporations from social criticism because they are validated by the very institutions responsible for social critique. Moreover, by refocusing attention on what are perceived to be the educational causes of economic problems, the OECD removes the focus from the actual corporate causes of unemployment. When the quality of education is defined in strict accordance with market economy values, such a narrow view is deeply destructive of humanistically constituted educational philosophies. (Contains 12 references.) (MAB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC