> The recent history of American higher education has in a sense been one hype cycle after another. In 2006, the sociologist Adam Best wrote, “Over the years, I have been assured that our university—if not all of higher education—was about to be transformed by the Pacific Rim, assessment, active learning, cooperative learning, distance learning, service learning, problem-based learning, responsibility-based management, zero-based budgeting, broadening the general-education requirements, narrowing the general-education requirements, capstone courses, writing across the curriculum, affirmative action, multicultural educa­tion, computer networking, the Internet, water (don’t ask), critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and I don’t know what else.” If anything, this tendency has gotten even worse since.

#JonathanRees #AdamBest on #UniversityAdministration #UniversityFads #MarketingHype

It all make me think of #JaquesEllull on how "intellectuals" (or the corporate mindsets among them..) are particularly vulnerable to PropagandaS #Propagandas
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