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Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
Harry C. Boyte (Ed.)
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Description for Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
Paperback. New possibilities for democratic revitalization with educators as agents and architects, not victims, of change Editor(s): Boyte, Harry C. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JHBS; JNF; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships. Higher education is increasingly seen, and often portrays itself, as a ticket to individual success--a private good, not a public one.
Democracy's Education grows from the American Commonwealth Partnership, ... Read more
Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships. Higher education is increasingly seen, and often portrays itself, as a ticket to individual success--a private good, not a public one.
Democracy's Education grows from the American Commonwealth Partnership, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520364
SKU
V9780826520364
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About Harry C. Boyte (Ed.)
Harry C. Boyte is Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College, a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. He is the author of eight previous books. Boyte's work has appeared in more than 150 publications including Huffington Post, New ... Read more
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