Higher Education and the Politics of Disruption
Higher Education and the Politics of Disruption
Author(s): Henry A. GirouxSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, History and theory of political science, Higher Education , Educational Psychology, State/Government and Education, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: higher education; politics; progress; students; public good; public mission; public sphere
Summary/Abstract: At its best education is dangerous because it offers young people and other actors the promise of racial and economic justice, a future in which democracy becomes inclusive and a dream in which all lives matter. In a healthy society universities should be subversive; they should go against the grain, and give voice to the voiceless, the unmentionable and the whispers of truth that haunt the apostles of unchecked power and wealth. Pedagogy should be disruptive and unsettling and push hard against the common sense vocabularies of neoliberalism and its regime of affective management.
Journal: Chowanna
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 54 (1)
- Page Range: 1-20
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English