Education as Civic Engagement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Gary A. Olson, Lynn Worsham

      Pages 1-4

3. Historical Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Race, Rhetoric, and the Contest over Civic Education

      • Susan Searls Giroux

      Pages 7-48

   3. History as a Challenge to the Idea of the University

      • Jeffrey J. Williams

      Pages 49-70

   4. Class Consciousness and the Junior College Movement: Creating a Docile Workforce

      • William DeGenaro

      Pages 71-94

   5. Hegemony and the Discourse of the Land Grant Movement: Historicizing as a Point of Departure

      • Danika M. Brown

      Pages 95-128

4. Emerging Trends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Marketing Excellence in Higher Education

      • Christopher Carter

      Pages 131-162

   3. Teaching Work: Academic Labor and Social Class

      • Bill Hendricks

      Pages 163-201

   4. Capitalizing on Disaster: How the Political Right is Using Disaster to Privatize Public Schooling

      • Kenneth J. Saltman

      Pages 203-218

5. Toward a Pedagogy of Hope

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Deweyan Hopefulness in a Time of Despair

      • Stephen M. Fishman

      Pages 221-253

   3. What’s Hope Got to Do With It? Toward a Theory of Hope and Pedagogy

      • Dale Jacobs

      Pages 255-275

   4. Liberating “Liberatory” Education, or What Do We Mean by “Liberty” Anyway?

      • Jeffrey M. Ringer

      Pages 277-298

   5. Afterword Civic Engagement and Critical Pedagogy

      • John W. Presley

      Pages 299-313

6. Back Matter

   Pages 315-338

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A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.

• education
• freedom
• politics
• schooling

"Education as Civic Engagement brings together some of the best essays yet published on the history, politics, and hopes for the future of higher education. This is a brilliant collection that is both rigorous and accessible. Given the crucial role that higher education plays in developing the formative culture necessary for critical literacy, social responsibility, and civic engagement, this book is a must-read and should be placed in the hands of all students, policy makers, politicians, social movements, and educators themselves. Gary Olson and Lynn Worsham have once again made a vital contribution to the ongoing conversation on public values, civic engagement, and the meaning and purpose of higher education." - Henry Giroux, McMaster University

"Education as Civic Engagement should be read by anyone teaching the democratic skills of critical inquiry, collaborative work, communication, and most certainly by those who prepare teachers for public education where these skills begin to appear in the curriculum. And the ideas in this volume must be discussed in classes that touch on the structure, governance, finance, and history of American public higher education. We cannot go on without understanding the real situations we face." - John W. Presley, Illinois State University

DANIKA M. BROWN Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas - Pan-American, USA CHRISTOPHER CARTER is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma, USA WILLIAM DEGENARO Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Composition in the Department of Language, Culture, and Communication at the University of Michigan Dearborn, USA STEPHEN M. FISHMAN Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA SUSAN SEARLS GIROUX Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada BILL HENDRICKS Professor of English at California University of Pennsylvania, USA KENNETH J. SALTMAN Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University, USA DALE JACOBS Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada JEFFREY M. RINGER Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Modern Foreign Languages at Lee University, USA JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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