Saturday, October 20, 2012
Research Blog #5
-Bernasconi, Michele and Profeta, Paola "Public Education and Redistribution When Talents are Mismatched" European Economic Review 56.1 (January 2012): 84-96.
- Haupt, Alexander. "The Evolution Of Public Spending On Higher Education In A Democracy." European Journal Of Political Economy 28.4 (2012): 557-573.
- Jeleniewski Seidler, Victor. "Higher Education, Markets, And Emotional Values." Psychotherapy & Politics International 10.3 (2012): 228-245.
- Martin, Ben. "Are Universities and University Research Under Threat? Towards and Evolutionary Model of University Speciation" Cambridge Journal of Economics 36.3 (2012): 543-565
- Palle2 Rasmussen, et al. "Developmental Patterns Of Privatization In Higher Education: A Comparative Study." Higher Education 64.6 (2012): 789-803.
- Priest, Douglas M. Privatization and Public Universities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Print
Research Questions:
Privatization, is it the natural evolution of higher education or capitalist economy's invasion of the education system?
Further Questions I'd like to explore in my paper
What are the effects of said privatization? is it bad or good for the institutions and quality of education given?That is, should measures be taken to reverse the privatization trend or should further privatization be encouraged? Also, current changes to our universities aside, how would a privatized higher education system would look like in the future? Would privatization be good for the nation and the economy in the long run? Does the education system need public protection from the predators of Wall Street or would we be interfering with its development for the better? (After all, all reform attempts face opposition when they first come to the fore)
These are the question I'd like to ask and try to answer in my paper but reflecting them in my research question and thesis seems problematic.
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I see now where you are headed. You are trying to apply evolutionary theory to the study of institutions, rather like Karl Polanyi's "The Great Transformation" (which is worth a look if you pursue this idea.) I see that this sort of thing has been done with higher education -- see, for instance, Cameron Fincher's "Institutional Change and Evolution" in Research in Higher Education 37.4 (1996) for discussion of the theory. But it seems like an enormous topic -- more suited to a book or dissertation than a research paper for this class.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could use the evolutionary theory to frame a discussion of how universities of various sorts will survive the higher education bubble bursting. Some sources on the bubble to consider:
http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education-bubble/
http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-Bubble-Encounter-Broadside/dp/1594036659
In his "broadside," Glenn Harlan Reynolds argues that schools should not take on debt at this time, because that could leave them at great risk with the coming bursting of the bubble. In light of that, Rutgers's likely successful borrowing of 750M is troubling.
These are just some thoughts. I'm curious how you will go forward.