The Red Light in the Ivory Tower ─ Contexts and Implications of Entrepreneurial Education

Breault (curriculum studies, West Virginia U.) and Perez (education, Saginaw Valley State U.) offer a critical examination of entrepreneurial models of education, arguing that much of it is driven by illusory prestige benchmarking and that this has had damaging effects on faculty, programs, students, and research. After laying out their theoretical argument, they offer case studies showing how universities are driven by prestige indicators. Finally, they conclude with a challenge to university stakeholders to seek out democratic spaces in their institutions in order to create an image of purpose to balance against the potentially destructive image of prestige. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Donna Adair Breault (PhD Georgia State University) is associate professor of curriculum studies at West Virginia University. She has three books including Urban Education: A Handbook for Parents and Educators (with Louise Allen) and Experiencing Dewey: Lessons for the Classroom (with Rick Breault). In addition, she has had articles published in a number of journals including Educational Theory, Educational Forum, Educational Studies, Planning and Change, and the International Journal of Leadership in Education.
David M. Callejo Perez (PhD Florida International University) is the Carl A. Gerstacker Endowed Chair in Education at Saginaw Valley State University and Chair, Human Subjects Institutional Review Board. He has authored three books on civil rights in the South, schools in the inner city and higher education, co-edited five others, and published several chapters in books as well as over 40 peer-reviewed articles and 50 refereed academic papers. He is a member and factotum (2012) of the Society for Professors of Curriculum.