Giroux (2015). The New Right-Wing Assault on Higher Education – Academic Unfreedom in America.
“… the university as a place to question and think …”
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Giroux (2015). Marketing the University – Corporate Power and the Academic Factory.
“The consequence of the substitution of technology for pedagogy is that instrumental goals replace ethical and political considerations, diminishing classroom control by teachers while offering a dehumanizing pedagogy for students.”
Giroux (2015). Introduction – Challenging the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex After 9/11.
“… many educators have lost a meaningful language for linking schooling to democracy, convinced that education is now about job training, competitive market advantage, patriotic correctness, and a steady supply of labor for the national security state.”
Greenwald (2013). NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily.
“The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk — regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.” (ΒΆ3)
Justice & Stanley (2016). Teaching in the Time of Trump.
“Public schools exist, in part, for the political purpose of instilling the principal values of a democratic republic, training students in the skills and knowledge requisite to healthy democratic life. In a time when a major political candidate threatens the fundamental values of the nation, educators are called to explain the nature of the present threat, that is, to explain one of the oldest problems in Western philosophy, the problem of demagoguery.” (p 38)
Blum & Ullman (2012). The globalization and corporatization of education.
“The neoliberal imposition threatens the sustainability of democracy.” (p 372)