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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giroux, Henry A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Political aspects.

Neoliberalism.

United States.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects.

Neoliberalism--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 240 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Haymarket, 2014.

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.

Contents:

Acknopwledgments

Introduction

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

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781608463343

1608463346

OCLC:

867116841