The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela
Mariya Ivancheva, "The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela "
English | ISBN: 1503634744 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 657 KB
English | ISBN: 1503634744 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 657 KB
Over the last few decades, the decline of the public university has dramatically increased under intensified commercialization and privatization, with market-driven restructurings leading to the deterioration of working and learning conditions. A growing reserve army of scholars and students, who enter precarious learning, teaching, and research arrangements, have joined recent waves of public unrest in both developed and developing countries to advocate for reforms to higher education. Yet even the most visible campaigns have rarely put forward any proposals for an alternative institutional organization. Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela,
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