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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Higher Education’s Challenges: A Dialectical Analysis
John M. Budd
(School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri, USA)
Abstract: Higher education in the United States faces many challenges and many criticisms today. Some of the criticisms are politically based, some concentrate on finances, others attack a variety of elements of factors. A potential means of analysis of the predicament of higher education is that of Marxist dialectics. Oppositions can be examined as they are manifest within the organizations, and the causes of the oppositions can be described. This study applies the dialectical method to provide a diagnosis of some of the essential problems faced at this time. No prognosis or remedy is presented here; the first step is the description of the problems.
Key words: Marx, Karl, dialectical materialism, higher education, political economy
