Education as civic engagement: toward a more democratic society

Education as Civic Engagement: Toward a More Democratic Society. is a collection of ten essays examining education€”mostly higher education€”as civic engagement. These essays are the finest works of scholarship on education publishedover the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture. Collectively, the works in this volume analyze in a substantive and rigorous manner a number of key issues in the politics of education. INDICE: Introduction.PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES.Race, Rhetoric, and the Contest over Civic Education;. S.Searls Giroux.History as a Challenge to the Idea of the University;. J.J.Williams.Class Consciousness and the Junior College Movement: Creating a Docile Workforce;. W.DeGenaro.Hegemony and the Discourse of the Land Grant Movement: Historicizing as a Point of Departure; .D.M.Brown.PART II: EMERGING TRENDS.Marketing Excellence in Higher Education;. C.Carter.Capitalizing on Disaster: How the Political Right is Using Disaster to Privatize Public Schooling;. K.J.Saltman.PART III: TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF HOPE.Deweyan Hopefulness in a Time of Despair; .S.M.Fishman.What's Hope Got to Do With It?: Toward a Theory of Hope and Pedagogy; .D.Jacobs.Liberating 'Liberatory' Education, or What Do We Mean by 'Liberty' Anyway?; .J.M.Ringer.Index.Contributors

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-3369-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 338
• Fecha Publicación: 13/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido