[D66] Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

[J.N.]

Price: $17.00
ISBN: 9781608463343
Published: March, 2014
Type: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books
<http://www.haymarketbooks.org/publisher/haymarket-books>


  Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

  * Education <http://www.haymarketbooks.org/category/education>

BY HENRY A. GIROUX <http://www.haymarketbooks.org/bio/Henry-A-Giroux>

/Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education/ reveals how neoliberal
policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have
radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education,
short-changing a generation of young people.

Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded
and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven
education policy. Championing the youth around the globe who have dared
to resist the bartering of their future, he calls upon public
intellectuals---as well as all people concer ned about the future of
democracy---to speak out and defend the university as a site of critical
learning and democratic promise.

About the author

*HENRY A. GIROUX* currently holds the Global TV Network Chair
Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies
Department. His most recent books include: /Disposable Youth: Racialized
Memories and the Culture of Cruelty /and/ Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a
Democratic Future./

Reviews

"Professor Giroux has focused his keen intellect on the hostile
corporate takeover of higher education in North America... He is
relentless in his defense of a society that requires its citizenry to
place its cultural, political, and economic institutions in context so
they can be interrogated and held truly accountable. We are fortunate to
have such a prolific writer and deep thinker to challenge us all."
*---Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union
*
"No one has been better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the many ways in
which neoliberalism, with its vicious and predatory excesses, has
damaged the American economy and undermined its democratic processes.
Now, as Giroux brilliantly explains, it is threatening one of the
nation's proudest and most important achievements---its system of higher
education."
*---Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and former op-ed
columnist for the /New York Times/
*
"Henry Giroux remains the critical voice of a generation. . . . He dares
us to reevaluate the significance of public pedagogy as integral to any
viable notion of democratic participation and social responsibility.
Anybody who is remotely interested in the plight of future generations
must read this book."
*---Dr. Brad Evans, Director, /Histories of Violence/ website
*

*Praise for /Twilight of the Social/:
*
"A convincing indictment of a society that sacrifices its youth and its
education, and perhaps its future, on the alter of private gain. Giroux
is a one-man indignation machine. We need more like him."*---Russell
Jacoby, UCLA, author of T/he Last Intellectuals and The End of Utopia/*

"Henry Giroux has been the most consistent and outspoken defender and
promoter of the life-prospects and human dignity of which young
generations were robbed or which they were prevented to recognize as
their birth rights. This book offers a profound analysis of the current
state of the world and the chances of making it more hospitable to its
newcomers--a warning and call to action. Obligatory reading to all of us
who care, young and old alike."*---Zygmut Bauman*

"Henry Giroux is one of our most important public intellectuals. Though
he vividly describes the privatization of compassion, the rapid decline
of higher education s commitment to democracy and shared notions of the
public good, the force of Giroux's writings shows us we are not alone
and there is power in his arguments of resistance. This is a vital book
that needs to be read..."*---David H. Price, Professor of Anthropology,
St. Martin's University*


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