Overview
- Examines how issues of class have fared in higher education under late capitalism, specifically the notion of education as a source of class mobility under neoliberalism
- Explores how debt shapes our identity and conduct in higher education today
- Offers the idea of 'academic habitus' to explain why higher educational reform moves at a slow pace in spite of widespread dissatisfaction in fundamental economic and managerial conditions of the academy
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics (NFECP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores questions concerning personal identity and individual conduct within neoliberal academe. The author suggests that neoliberal academe is normal academe in the new millennium though well aware of its contested nature and destructive capacities. Examining higher education through a number of ideals, such as austerity and transparency, brings readers on a journey into its present as well as its past. If some of these ideals can be identified and critiqued, there is a chance that the foundations of neoliberal academe can be weakened. This book actively pursues pathways out of the neoliberal abyss--and offers that demanding a role for pleasure in higher education may be one of them.
Reviews
“In his brilliant book, Di Leo creates a new language and mode of critique to understand the ideas, social relations, desires, values, and forms of agency that imprint neoliberalism with a sense of normalcy. This book offers up a new way to reclaim not a romanticized university of the past but one that serves the present and future as an institution for democracy, justice, critical inquiry, and social responsibility. A must read in dark times.” (Henry A. Giroux, University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, McMaster University, Canada)
“This important book’s major contribution is to promote workable standards, challenging the reigning system, which would turn neoliberalism against itself. Filled with brilliant readings of intellectual classics, recent educational Jeremiads, and contemporary popular culture, this book will be a classic guide for those who would transform the new normal.” (Daniel T. O’Hara, Professor of English and Mellon Professor of Humanities, Temple University, USA)
“Di Leo offers a prescient critique of the recasting of higher education by neoliberal prerogatives. Much more than simply describing the crisis or bemoaning the lineaments of austerity, this book explores the basis for resistance and change in academe. For those of us concerned about the future of the university, this should be required reading.” (Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, City University of New York, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education under Late Capitalism
Book Subtitle: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition
Authors: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Series Title: New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49858-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49857-7Published: 13 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84258-5Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49858-4Published: 07 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-6819
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6827
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 193
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education