Henry A. Giroux

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible examination of neoliberalism and its effects on higher education and America, by the author of American Nightmare. 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. "Giroux has focused his keen intellect on the hostile corporate takeover of higher education in North America... .He is relentless in his defense of a society that requires its citizenry to place its cultural, political, and economic institutions in context so they can be interrogated and held truly accountable. We are fortunate to have such a prolific writer and deep thinker to challenge us all."¿Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union "No one has been better than... Giroux at analyzing the many ways in which neoliberalism... has damaged the American economy and undermined its democratic processes."¿Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos "Giroux... dares us to reevaluate the significance of public pedagogy as integral to any viable notion of democratic participation and social responsibility. Anybody who is remotely interested in the plight of future generations must read this book."¿Dr. Brad Evans, Director, Histories of Violence website

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642590920
• Artikelnr.: 58436576

Autorenporträt

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge's Key Guides Publication Series. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the "12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think. "His most recent books include: Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014), Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America's Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights, 2018), and his forthcoming, The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of books, in press). Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors. His web site is .henryagiroux.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Neoliberalism's War on Democracy
Chapter 1: Dystopian Education in a Neoliberal Society
Chapter 2: At the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth
Resistance and the American/British Divide
Chapter 3: Intellectual Violence in the Age of Gated Intellectuals
(co-authored with Brad Evans)
Chapter 4: Universities Gone Wild (co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux)
Chapter 5: On the Urgency for Public Intellectuals in the Academy
Chapter 6: Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth