Education as civic engagement : toward a more democratic society
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Education as civic engagement : toward a more democratic society
（Education, politics, and public life / series editors, Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.
Table of Contents
- 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
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