Research Catalog

Title

Libraries, classrooms, and the interests of democracy : marking the limits of neoliberalism / John Buschman.

Author

Buschman, John

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012, ©2012.

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Details

Description

viii, 239 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This book explores the connections between educative institutions and democracy, and the resources within democratic theory reflecting on the tensions between marketing, advertising, consumption, and democracy.

Subjects

• Neoliberalism
• Democracy and education
• Library science > Philosophy
• Libraries and society

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Should we be bothered by library marketing and advertising in the classroom, and if so, why? : an introduction -- An historical view I : a précis on the entanglements of democracy, education, and libraries in America -- An historical view II : a précis on advertising in schools, marketing in libraries, and the appeal of neoliberalism -- From theoretical to empirical critiques of advertising : have they deepened understanding of democracy and our educative institutions? -- Tocqueville and the centrifugal/centripetal forces within America : why (and how much) our practices in libraries and classrooms matter -- A practical communitarianism : educative institutions, social bonds, and neoliberalism's incursions -- Deliberative democratic theory's deeper critique : the profound effects of neoliberalism's grammar in educative institutions -- Looking ahead at neoliberalism's trajectory : the continuing interests of democracy and educative institutions : a conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780810885288 (pbk.)
• 081088528X (pbk.)
• 9780810885295 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012010128

OCLC

• 783155032
• SCSB-12863842

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library