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.
Author(s): Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux
Edition: 1st
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 336
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Why Taking Back Higher Education Matters......Page 12
Part I Pedagogy and the Promise of Democracy in the University......Page 24
1 The Post-9/11 University and the Project of Democracy......Page 26
2 Academic Culture, Intellectual Courage, and the Crisis of Politics in an Era of Permanent War......Page 64
3 Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy in the Academy......Page 100
Part II Higher Education and the Politics of Race......Page 138
4 Race, Rhetoric, and the Contest over Civic Education......Page 140
5 The Return of the Ivory Tower: Black Educational Exclusion in the Post–Civil Rights Era......Page 180
Part III Incorporating Education and Shredding the Social Contract......Page 226
6 Youth, Higher Education, and the Breaking of the Social Contract: Toward the Possibility of a Democratic Future......Page 228
7 Neoliberalism Goes to College: Higher Education in the New Economy......Page 260
Notes......Page 298
B......Page 328
C......Page 329
F......Page 330
I......Page 331
M......Page 332
P......Page 333
T......Page 334
Z......Page 335
