Michael Berube, Cary Nelson

Higher Education Under Fire

Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities

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Produktbeschreibung

Higher education is arguably America's most valuable and durable product in the global economy, yet it is constantly subject to criticism. The contributors to this book examine why - and how - this is happening, from a wide variety of perspectives.

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The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780415908061
• ISBN-10: 041590806X
• Artikelnr.: 22369070

Autorenporträt

Michael Bérubé and Cary Nelson both teach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael Bérubé's most recent books include Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Verso). For Routledge, Cary Nelson has co-edited CulturalStudies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface -- Introduction: A Report From the Front /Cary Nelson and Michael Berube -- I PROFESSORS AND POLITICS -- Going Public: Political Discourse and the Faculty Voice /Linda Ray Pratt -- A Faculty Response to the Fiscal Crisis: From Defense to Offense /Ernst Benjamin --
Political Correctness
and the Attack on American Colleges /Paul Lauter -- Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge /Michael W. Apple -- Another Brick in the Wall: (Re)contextualizing the Crisis /Carol A. Stabile -- The University and the Media: Apologia Pro Vita Sua with a Defense of Rationality /Barry R. Gross -- How the Culture Wars Matter: Liberal Historiography, German History, and the Jewish Catastrophe /Jeffrey -- Money, Merit, and Democracy at the University: An Exchange -- II PEDAGOGY AND POPULATIONS -- A Critique of Critical Pedagogy /Gregory Jay and Gerald Graff -- Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only /Linda Brodkey -- Beyond the Ivory Tower: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Higher Education /Henry A. Giroux --
To Sir With Love
: National Pedagogy in the Clinton Era /Judith Frank -- They
re Taking Over! and Other Myths about Race on Campus /Troy Duster -- No Special Rights /Michael Warner -- The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education /Joan W. Scott -- Identity Politics and Campus Communities: An Exchange -- The Rise of
Identity Politics
: An Examination and a Critique /Todd Gitlin -- Discussion -- Contradictions of Existence: Identity and Essentialism /Cameron McCarthy -- Contesting Racial Amnesia: From Identity Politics Toward Post-Multiculturalism /Michael Dyson -- Discussion -- Identity and the Status of Afro-American Intellectuals /Jerry Watts -- Discussion -- Contributors -- Index.