Beyond the Corporate University: Culture and Pedagogy in the New MillenniumHenry A. Giroux, Kostas Myrsiades 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. |
Contents
Franchising the University | 13 |
Vocationalizing Higher Education Schooling and the Politics of Corporate Culture | 27 |
The University A Place to Think? | 43 |
Literary Theory and the Role of the University | 55 |
Cultural Politics and the Struggle over Curricula | 69 |
Curriculum Mortis A Manifesto for Structural Change | 71 |
Brown v Higher Education Pedagogy Cultural Politics and Latinao Activism | 87 |
Culture the Academy and the Police or Reading Matthew Arnold in Our Present Unsettled State | 107 |
The Case for Jameson or Towards a Marxian Pedagogy of World Literature | 173 |
Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy | 193 |
World Bank Literature 101 | 211 |
Making the Pedagogical More Political | 225 |
Going Postal Pedagogic Violence and the Schooling of Emotion | 227 |
The Politics of Teaching Literature The Paedagogical Effect | 265 |
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Timescapes for Literacy Time in Academic Communities | 133 |
The Responsibility of Literature and the Possibility of Politics | 159 |
The Political Responsibility of the Teaching of Literatures | 161 |
Index | 329 |
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