Education as Civic Engagement [electronic resource] : Toward a More Democratic Society /
Olson, G.editor.
Worsham, L.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: On the Civic Function of Intellectuals Today; Introduction; Part 1 Historical Perspectives; Chapter 1 Races, Rhetoric, and the Contest over Civic Education; Chapter 2 History as a Challenge to the Idea of the University; Chapter 3 Class Consciousness and the Junior College Movement: Creating a Docile Workforce; Chapter 4 Hegemony and the Discourse of the Land Grant Movement: Historicizing as a Point of Departure; Part 2 Emerging Trends; Chapter 5 Marketing Excellence in Higher Education
Chapter 6 Teaching Work: Academic Labor and Social ClassChapter 7 Capitalizing on Disaster: How the Political Right is Using Disaster to Privatize Public Schooling; Part 3 Toward a Pedagogy of Hope; Chapter 8 Deweyan Hopefulness in a Time of Despair; Chapter 9 What's Hope Got to Do With It? Toward a Theory of Hope and Pedagogy; Chapter 10 Liberating "Liberatory" Education, or What Do We Mean by "Liberty" Anyway?; Chapter 11 Afterword: Civic Engagement and Critical Pedagogy; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Education-Philosophy.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Educational Philosophy.