Neoliberalism's war on higher education / Henry Giroux ; cover design by Rachel Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giroux, Henry A.

Contributor:

Cohen, Rachel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism--Education (Higher)--United States.

Neoliberalism.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Humanistic--United States.

Education, Humanistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Addresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Neoliberalism's War on Democracy; CHAPTER ONE Dystopian Education in a Neoliberal Society; CHAPTER TWO At the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide; CHAPTER THREE Intellectual Violence in the Age of Gated Intellectuals: Critical Pedagogy and a Return to the Political; CHAPTER FOUR Universities Gone Wild: Big Sports, Big Money, and the Return of the Repressed in Higher Education; CHAPTER FIVE On the Urgency for Public Intellectuals in the Academy

CHAPTER SIX Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social AwakeningCHAPTER SEVEN Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth; NOTES; INDEX; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 09, 2014).

ISBN:

1-60846-350-8