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The Tower Under Siege: Technology, Power and Education
reviewed by Michael Margolis - 2002 Title: The Tower Under Siege: Technology, Power and Education
Author(s): Brian Lewis, Christine Massey & Richard Smith
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal ISBN: 0773521704, Pages: 240, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Higher education and scholarly research, particularly in the
liberal arts and sciences, supposedly have intrinsic value,
regardless of their immediate utility. Public and non-profit
universities in Canada and the US supposedly shelter their faculty
and students from most of the vicissitudes of the market
economy. The academy’s rhetoric declares that scholars
should have sufficient resources and independence to step back from
society in order to reflect upon the conduct of private and civic
affairs. As the authors of The Tower Under Siege boldly
proclaim, these suppositions no longer apply.
Perhaps they never did. Historically, specialized
programs, schools, or colleges found within and without
universities provided training for various occupations and
professions from farming and business through engineering, law and
medicine. Patrons and clients of
universities—governments, businesses, churches and
philanthropies—have always expected graduates to have
acquired not merely the virtues of educated citizens but also the
practical skills or knowledge necessary to secure desirable
livelihoods. Recently, however, globalization and technology
have provided new means for private for-profit educational
institutions to challenge the... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Michael Margolis
University of Cincinnati E-mail Author MICHAEL MARGOLIS is Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. His most recent book is Politics as Usual: The Cyberspace “Revolution”, (2000), co-authored with David Resnick. Other recent publications include “Brave New Universities”, First Monday and "Using the Internet for Teaching and Research: A Political Evaluation," in Robert A. Cole, ed. Issues in Web-based Pedagogy: A Critical Primer (2000).
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