Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-233) and index.
Contents:
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 / Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux -- Universities Gone Wild : Big Sports, Big Money, and the Return of the Repressed in Higher Education / Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux -- 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 / an interview with Henry A. Giroux by Michael A. Peters.
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.
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