Education as Civic Engagement : Toward a More Democratic Society (Hardcover)

Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Race, Rhetoric, and the Contest over Civic Education; S.Searls Giroux History as a Challenge to the Idea of the University; J.J.Williams Class Consciousness and the Junior College Movement: Creating a Docile Workforce; W.DeGenaro Hegemony and the Discourse of the Land Grant Movement: Historicizing as a Point of Departure; D.M.Brown PART II: EMERGING TRENDS Marketing Excellence in Higher Education; C.Carter Capitalizing on Disaster: How the Political Right is Using Disaster to Privatize Public Schooling; K.J.Saltman PART III: TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF HOPE Deweyan Hopefulness in a Time of Despair; S.M.Fishman What's Hope Got to Do With It?: Toward a Theory of Hope and Pedagogy; D.Jacobs Liberating 'Liberatory' Education, or What Do We Mean by 'Liberty' Anyway?; J.M.Ringer Index Contributors