Steven C. Ward, Author at Social Science Space

Steven C. Ward

teven C. Ward is professor of sociology at Western Connecticut State University. He is the author of three books, Reconfiguring Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge; Modernizing the Mind: Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society and Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education. His current research examines the link between knowledge society policies and global university and school reform efforts.

World University Rankings: The Haves Have It

There’s a rankings mania affecting institutions of higher education. But just because it’s a mania, does that make bad?

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Beware the Lessons of Competitive US Higher Ed

Other nations looking at successful American universities and seeing the invisible hand of the marketplace at work should take a closer look at the arm attached to that hand, argues Steve C. Ward.

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Pricing the ‘Great Cost Shift’ in US Higher Ed

Some Australians have looked to the United States as a model for revamping Oz’s higher education system. U.S.-based sociologist Steven Ward suggests they ought to take another look.

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