Neoliberal Dis-imagination, Manufactured Ignorance and Civic Illiteracy

In this paper, I explore the vital role that a culture of ignorance, illiteracy and dominant cultural apparatuses play in both undermining civic cultures and the institutions, such as higher education, that are crucial to the construction of critically engaged citizens. At the heart of this chapter is the claim that democracies cannot exist without informed citizens and that education itself must be about more than training and is vital to …