Higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, it is attacked by businesses who want to refashion institutions in the image of the marketplace. Higher education is the target of cultural conservatives who have undermined academic freedom and access by deriding the academy as a hotbed of left-multicultural-radicalism and anti-Americanism. The historic mission to educate students as citizens motivated by democratic values is overshadowed by profit margins. Giroux and Giroux argue that the greatest danger faced by higher education comes from corporatization and educational apartheid. If higher education is to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it must encourage students to be critical thinkers and citizens, as it vouchsafes conditions for educators to produce scholarship in the service of an inclusive democracy.
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"Reminiscent of C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination...This updated, necessary call for action for all academicians is refreshing to read."--Choice Magazine
"Henry and Susan Giroux are performing an immense public service with this book. It is a sweeping critique of how our culture, especially the educational establishment, has failed to prepare us for the crises of our time. And it offers hope for the possibility of resisting that and creating a new culture, inspirational and profoundly democratic."--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
"Henry and Susan Giroux's extraordinary book is an electrifying call to educators to renounce political passivity and to assume the role of public intellectuals prepared to take back schools and universities from the predations of a business driven ideology that silences dissent and undermines democracy. A beautifully fashioned work of cultural history, it is also a rich and stimulating brew of elegant analysis and powerful polemic. Teachers from the kindergarten classrooms to the ivory tower will be grateful for the hope and affirmation the Girouxs' have give us. All in all, a magnificent achievement."--Jonathan Kozol
"Here, at last, is a critical study in the social sciences that explores with brilliant iconoclasm the connection between the post 9/11 de-democratization of America, the erosion of its politics and its civil rights, its inexorable drift into rabid conservatism, and recent attacks on the form and substance of higher education. Argued with enormous conviction and considerable insight, Take Back Higher Education does for contemporary pedagogy what the likes of John Dewey did for it long ago: insist that the health of our society depends not on consumption or the rampant production of wealth for the rich, but on educating new generations of citizens for open, informed public engagement, for constructive political involvement, for commitment to a social world built on justice and empowerment for all; in short, for all the things currently under threat in the security-obsessed, frightened USA of the early twenty-first century. Here, in other words, is a charter for real freedom through enlightenment, a charter that ought to have been accomplished two hundred or so years ago, but still requires a good fight. Henry and Susan Giroux have undertaken that fight with vigor, energy, and consummate intelligence."--John Comaroff, University of Chicago
"Henry and Susan Giroux are performing an immense public service with this book. It is a sweeping critique of how our culture, especially the educational establishment, has failed to prepare us for the crises of our time. And it offers hope for the possibility of resisting that and creating a new culture, inspirational and profoundly democratic."--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
"Henry and Susan Giroux's extraordinary book is an electrifying call to educators to renounce political passivity and to assume the role of public intellectuals prepared to take back schools and universities from the predations of a business driven ideology that silences dissent and undermines democracy. A beautifully fashioned work of cultural history, it is also a rich and stimulating brew of elegant analysis and powerful polemic. Teachers from the kindergarten classrooms to the ivory tower will be grateful for the hope and affirmation the Girouxs' have give us. All in all, a magnificent achievement."--Jonathan Kozol
"Here, at last, is a critical study in the social sciences that explores with brilliant iconoclasm the connection between the post 9/11 de-democratization of America, the erosion of its politics and its civil rights, its inexorable drift into rabid conservatism, and recent attacks on the form and substance of higher education. Argued with enormous conviction and considerable insight, Take Back Higher Education does for contemporary pedagogy what the likes of John Dewey did for it long ago: insist that the health of our society depends not on consumption or the rampant production of wealth for the rich, but on educating new generations of citizens for open, informed public engagement, for constructive political involvement, for commitment to a social world built on justice and empowerment for all; in short, for all the things currently under threat in the security-obsessed, frightened USA of the early twenty-first century. Here, in other words, is a charter for real freedom through enlightenment, a charter that ought to have been accomplished two hundred or so years ago, but still requires a good fight. Henry and Susan Giroux have undertaken that fight with vigor, energy, and consummate intelligence."--John Comaroff, University of Chicago
About the Author
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communications in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University in Canada. He is the author of many books, including Stealing Innocence, Channel Surfing, and The Abandoned Generation. Susan Searls Giroux is Assistant Professor in the English Department at McMaster University. She is co-author of The Theory Toolbox and co-editor of The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies.
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Take Back Higher Education, United States, The Return of the Ivory Tower, Academic Culture, New York, Edward Said, Gulf War, Black Reconstruction, Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Supreme Court, Raymond Williams, White House, African Americans, Noam Chomsky, Douglas Kellner, Jim Crow, John Dewey, Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, John Walker, Lawrence Grossberg, Middle East, President Bush, Stuart Hall New!
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educated hope, corporate time, pedagogical conditions, critical citizenry, global public sphere, democratic public life, viable notion, permanent education, substantive democracy, inclusive democracy, democratic public sphere, civic mission Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Take Back Higher Education, United States, The Return of the Ivory Tower, Academic Culture, New York, Edward Said, Gulf War, Black Reconstruction, Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Supreme Court, Raymond Williams, White House, African Americans, Noam Chomsky, Douglas Kellner, Jim Crow, John Dewey, Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, John Walker, Lawrence Grossberg, Middle East, President Bush, Stuart Hall New!
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- Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 (The African-American Intellectual Heritage) by W. E. B. Du Bois on 12 pages
- In Search of Politics by Zygmunt Bauman on 5 pages
- Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Edward W. Said in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society: Social Suffering and Impoverishment in Contemporary Society by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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