Double Helix Jan 2019 Open Access

A Necessary Tension: Nussbaum and Simon Inform a Pedagogical Reading of Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Natalie Davey

Abstract

The value of higher education in the United States tends to be addressed in terms of the postmodern commodification of knowledge. As According to Lyotard, each game consists of rules that form among its players a consensus on which utterances, or moves, are meaningful, with the objective of the game being to produce, with maximum efficiency, knowledge as a commodity: a game is legitimated when investment in it is exceeded by the economic value of the knowledge it produces; conversely, a game is delegitimated when investment in it exceeds the economic value of the knowledge it produces. As college tuition costs continue to outpace median income, with student loan debt having collectively surpassed a staggering $1.5 trillion, what return on an investment in the game of higher education can be expected by graduates entering a highly competitive global economy?

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Double Helix
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2019-01-01
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10.37514/dbh-j.2019.7.1.09
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