Take Back Higher Education

Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Softcover Nachdruck of the Original 1. 2004 Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-52798-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

At the beginning for the new millennium, higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, higher education increasingly is besieged by corporate, right-wing and conservative ideologies that want to decouple higher education from its legacy of educating students to be critical and autonomous citizens, imbued with democratic and public values. The greatest danger faced by higher education comes from the focus of global neo-liberalism and the return of educational apartheid. Through the power of racial backlash, the war on youth, deregulation, commercialism, and privatization, neo-liberalism wages a vicious assault on all of those public spheres and goods not controlled by the logic of market relations and profit margins. Take Back Higher Education argues that if higher education is going to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it will have to confront neo-liberalism, racism, and the shredding of the social contract.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giroux, H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Post 9-11 University and the Project of Democracy Race, Rhetoric, and the Contest Over Civic Education Academic Culture, Intellectual Courage, and the Crisis of Politics Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy in the Academy The Multicultural Miracle: Depoliticizing Race in the Age of Privatization Neoliberalism Goes to College: Higher Education in the New Economy Youth, Higher Education, and the Breaking of the Social Contract: Towards the Possibility of a Democratic Future

Über Autor(innen)

Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.