Dialectic of the university: A critique of instrumental reason in graduate nursing education

Nursing Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 239-247

  Petrovskaya, Olga ^a   McDonald, Carol ^a   McIntyre, Marjorie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dialectic; Frankfurt Critical School; Graduate nursing education; Instrumental reason; Marketization of the university; Research industry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MARKETING; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; UNIVERSITY;

EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MARKETING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80052579403     PISSN: 14667681     EISSN: 1466769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-769X.2010.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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