Research Catalog

Title

Neoliberalism's war on higher education / Henry A. Giroux.

Author

Giroux, Henry A.

Publication

Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2014.

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Details

Description

ix, 240 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people. Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven education policy. Championing the youth around the globe who have dared to resist the bartering of their future, he calls upon public intellectuals -- as well as all people concerned about the future of democracy -- to speak out and defend the university as a site of critical learning and democratic promise.--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Neoliberalism > United States
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States
• Education, Higher > Political aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dystopian Education in a Neoliberal Society -- At the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education : Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide -- Intellectual Violence in the Age of Gated Intellectuals : Critical Pedagogy and a Return to the Political -- Universities Gone Wild : Big Sports, Big Money, and the Return of the Repressed in Higher Education -- On the Urgency for Public Intellectuals in the Academy -- Days of Rage : The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social Awakening -- Democracy Unsettled : From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth.

ISBN

• 9781608463343
• 1608463346

OCLC

• 867116841
• SCSB-11824775

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library