Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux
TL;DR: Giroux as discussed by the authors discusses how the excesses of neoliberal politics have reshaped and subverted the democratic mission of higher education and the role of the public intellectual project in higher education.
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Abstract: Truthout contributor, director of Truthout's Public Intellectual Project (truth-out.org/public-intellectual-project) and Truthout board member Henry A. Giroux responds to questions about how the excesses of neoliberal politics have reshaped and subverted the democratic mission of higher education.
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Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
TL;DR: Giroux has plenty of detractors as mentioned in this paper who claim that education is not the objective pursuit and dissemination of value-free knowledge and it is certainly not or (rather ought not to be) an anaesthetizing and depoliticizing process in which marketable "skill sets" are dispensed to uncritical student "customers" who are desperate to find employment in postmodern economies where satisfying, secure and well-paying jobs are quickly disappearing where they have not already vanished.
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