Beyond the Corporate University
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A01=Henry A. Giroux
A01=Kostas Myrsiades
Author_Henry A. Giroux
Author_Kostas Myrsiades
Category=JNK
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Product details
- ISBN 9780742510487
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 147 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2001
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A decade of budgetary, policy, and ideological contention has left American universities under the yoke of narrow-minded management models. As corporate culture increasingly invades educational and other public sectors, we as a nation have lost a clear vision of the public good and the necessary components of a vital democracy. Prominent scholars in this book seek to redress these trends. They move boldly beyond critique to show how and why the critical functions of a democratically informed civic education (not merely professional training) must become the core of the university's mission. They show why higher education must address what it means to relate knowledge to public life, and social responsibility to the demands of critical citizenship. Moreover, they show why democratic forms of education and various elements of a critical pedagogy are vital not only to individual students, but also to our economy and our democratic institutions and future leadership. They also suggest how we can move beyond the stagnation of current debates to more fully embrace the democratic possibilities of public education.
Henry A. Giroux is the Waterbury Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of several books including, The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence and Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth. Kostas Myrsiades is professor of English at West Chester University and the editor of The College Literature Journal.
