Democracy’s Nemesis Journal Articles

abstract

• This essay focuses on how higher education has been reshaped under the influence of a market rationality, however devalued recently, that continues to license out the university as a storefront, reconfigure governance on the model of a discredited business model, reduce faculty to contract labor, and position students largely as customers. Against the increasing corporatization of higher education, the essay calls for reclaiming education as crucial to the project of democratization, educating students to be willing and able to engage the relationship between equality and social justice as fundamental to public life, and provide the conditions for educators to connect their teaching to broader social issues.

authors

• Giroux, Henry Armand

status

• published 

publication date

• October 2009

has subject area

• 1303 Specialist Studies in Education (FoR)
• 2001 Communication and Media Studies (FoR)
• 2002 Cultural Studies (FoR)
• Sociology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies  Journal

keywords

• 4 Quality Education
• 47 Language, Communication and Culture
• 4702 Cultural Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1532708609341169

start page

• 669

end page

• 695

volume

• 9

issue

• 5