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Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Henry A. Giroux

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Higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, it is attacked by businesses who want to refashion institutions in the image of the marketplace. Higher education is the target of cultural conservatives who have undermined academic freedom and access by deriding the academy as a hotbed of left-multicultural-radicalism and anti-Americanism. The historic mission to educate students as citizens motivated by democratic values is overshadowed by profit margins. Giroux and Giroux argue that the greatest danger faced by higher education comes from corporatization and educational apartheid. If higher education is to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it must encourage students to be critical thinkers and citizens, as it vouchsafes conditions for educators to produce scholarship in the service of an inclusive democracy.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: May 10, 2004

ISBN: 1403964238

ISBN 13: 9781403964236

Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Henry A. Giroux

4/5 ( ratings)

Higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, it is attacked by businesses who want to refashion institutions in the image of the marketplace. Higher education is the target of cultural conservatives who have undermined academic freedom and access by deriding the academy as a hotbed of left-multicultural-radicalism and anti-Americanism. The historic mission to educate students as citizens motivated by democratic values is overshadowed by profit margins. Giroux and Giroux argue that the greatest danger faced by higher education comes from corporatization and educational apartheid. If higher education is to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it must encourage students to be critical thinkers and citizens, as it vouchsafes conditions for educators to produce scholarship in the service of an inclusive democracy.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: May 10, 2004

ISBN: 1403964238

ISBN 13: 9781403964236

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