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The Contentious Politics of Higher Education

Author : Lorenzo Cini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351267744
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Contentious Politics of Higher Education written by Lorenzo Cini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on neo-institutionalist and social movement approaches, this book analyses the impact that recent student mobilizations have brought about within Italian and English universities in terms of student services, curriculum organization, and governance structures. Arguing that the university context is central to explaining the variety and diversity of this impact, the author examines the effects of the type of governance on the strategies and tactics of the students and the responses of the challenged, considering the differences that exist between Italy, where universities are largely run by academics, and England, where universities tend to be governed by academic managers.

Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education

Author : Brendan Cantwell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786435020
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education written by Brendan Cantwell and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the politics of Higher Education is becoming more important as the sector is increasingly recognised as a vital source of innovation, skills, economic prosperity, and personal wellbeing. Yet key political differences remain over such issues as who should pay for higher education, how should it be accountable, and how we measure its quality and productivity. Particularly, are states or markets the key in helping to address such matters. The Handbook provides framing perspectives and perspectives, chapters on funding, governance and regulation, and pieces on the political economy of higher education and on the increased role of external stakeholders and indicators.

Despite the Odds

Author : Merilee S. Grindle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691118000
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Despite the Odds written by Merilee S. Grindle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Despite the Odds' examines five examples of education reform in South America, focusing on the political battle to secure reform in the face of powerfully entrenched opposition. It shows how strategic choices by reformers can reshape power equations & undermine institutional biases.

Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education

Author : Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048962
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education by : Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

Download or read book Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education written by Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and important. Therefore, understanding the college curriculum and how it is changed and shaped helps us to understand the overall dynamics of knowledge in contemporary society. This book considers the emergence of three curricular fields that have developed and spread over the past half century in American higher education - Women's studies, Asian American studies and Queer/LGBT studies. It details the broader history of their development as knowledge fields and then explains how, when, and why individual colleges and universities may choose to adopt such innovations. Based on in-depth case studies of curricular change processes at six colleges and universities across the United States, the book demonstrates that social movements targeting colleges and universities play a major role in curricular change and sets forward a new model for understanding what it takes for social movements targeting organizations to make an impact.

Contentious Politics

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190255056
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Contentious Politics written by Charles Tilly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An analysis of the major contentious events over the course of the past ten years"--

The Channels of Student Activism

Author : Amy J. Binder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226819868
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Channels of Student Activism written by Amy J. Binder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening analysis of collegiate activism and its effects on the divisions in contemporary American politics. The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Though most college campuses are considered ideologically progressive, how can it be that the right has been so successful in mobilizing young people even in these environments? As Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder show in this surprising analysis of the relationship between political activism on college campuses and the broader US political landscape, while liberal students often outnumber conservatives on college campuses, liberal campus organizing remains removed from national institutions that effectively engage students after graduation. And though they are usually in the minority, conservative student groups have strong ties to national right-leaning organizations, which provide funds and expertise, as well as job opportunities and avenues for involvement after graduation. Though the left is more prominent on campus, the right has built a much more effective system for mobilizing ongoing engagement. What’s more, the conservative college ecosystem has worked to increase the number of political provocations on campus and lower the public’s trust in higher education. In analyzing collegiate activism from the left, right, and center, The Channels of Student Activism shows exactly how politically engaged college students are channeled into two distinct forms of mobilization and why that has profound consequences for the future of American politics.

Teaching Politics in Secondary Education

Author : Wayne Journell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467710
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Politics in Secondary Education written by Wayne Journell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses data collected from multiple studies to offer recommendations on best practices for use in a polarized climate. Winner of the 2018 Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award presented by the National Council for the Social Studies Many social studies teachers report feeling apprehensive about discussing potentially volatile topics in the classroom, because they fear that administrators and parents might accuse them of attempting to indoctrinate their students. Wayne Journell tackles the controversial nature of teaching politics, addressing commonly raised concerns such as how to frame divisive political issues, whether teachers should disclose their personal political beliefs to students, and how to handle political topics that become intertwined with socially sensitive topics such as race, gender, and religion. Journell discusses how classrooms can become spaces for tolerant political discourse in an increasingly politically polarized American society. In order to explore this, Journell analyzes data that include studies of high school civics/government teachers during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and how they integrated television programs, technology, and social media into their teaching. The book also includes a three-year study of preservice middle and secondary social studies teachers’ political knowledge and a content analysis of CNN Student News. Wayne Journell is Associate Professor of Secondary Social Studies Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the editor of Teaching Social Studies in an Era of Divisiveness: The Challenges of Discussing Social Issues in a Non-Partisan Way.

Contesting Higher Education

Author : della Porta, Donatella
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529208637
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Higher Education written by della Porta, Donatella and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using new research on higher education in the UK, Canada, Chile and Italy, this rigorous comparative study investigates key episodes of student protests against neoliberal policies and practices in today’s universities. As well as examining origins and outcomes of higher education reforms, the authors set these waves of demonstrations in the wider contexts of student movements, political activism and social issues, including inequality and civil rights. Offering sophisticated new theoretical arguments based on fascinating empirical work, the insights and conclusions revealed in this original study are of value to anyone with an interest in social, political and related studies.

Despite the Odds

Author : Merilee S. Grindle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186812
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Despite the Odds written by Merilee S. Grindle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the Odds poses an important question: How can we account for successful policy reform initiatives when the political cards are stacked against change? Theories of politics usually predict that reform initiatives will be unsuccessful when powerful groups are opposed to change and institutions are biased against it. This book, however, shows how the strategic choices of reform proponents alter the destinies of policy reforms by reshaping power equations and undermining institutional biases that impede change. In many countries, the political path to reform can be daunting. Antireform interests are powerful and support for change is, at best, lukewarm. Centrally important institutions strongly defend the policy status quo. Despite these political odds, reformers have seized the initiative in promoting reform, weakening and marginalizing opposition groups, and marshaling political patrons and networks to advance their initiatives. Despite the Odds opens the "black box" of decision making in five initiatives designed to enhance the quality of education services in Latin America. The book addresses the strategies used by reformers to manage the political process of change and those adopted by opposition groups and institutions resisting their efforts. Individual chapters consider how leaders set national policy agendas for education, how policy design teams created the content of reform initiatives, how they dealt with the messy and public confrontations that greeted reform proposals when they were announced, and the carryover of political conflict when they were implemented.

Student Activism in the Academy

Author : Pietro A. Sasso
Publisher : Myers Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1975500385
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Student Activism in the Academy written by Pietro A. Sasso and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America’s colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious problems and progress of a movement that has stirred public reaction in and out of academe. Its fundamental purpose is to engage diverse publics in both reasoned and passionate reflection and soul searching on vital issues that surround campus protest, including: strategies for student activism the role of social media and technology legal questions on campus speech the dilemmas of political correctness generational differences among student activists and various forms of student protest related to race, class, gender, and disabilities. Administrators, faculty, students, and student life personnel in higher education—indeed, all those interested in today’s colleges and universities--will want to participate in the timely and productive dialogue within these pages.

Between Citizens and the State

Author : Christopher P. Loss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691163340
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Between Citizens and the State written by Christopher P. Loss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Public Funding of Higher Education

Author : Edward P. St. John
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882593
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Public Funding of Higher Education written by Edward P. St. John and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment because it encouraged social equity, conservatives because it promoted economic development. Recently, however, the politics of higher education have become more contentious. Conservatives advocate deep cuts in public financing; liberals want to expand enrollment and increase diversity. Some public universities have embraced privatization, while federal aid for students increasingly emphasizes middle-class affordability over universal access. In Public Funding of Higher Education, scholars and practitioners address the complexities of this new climate and its impact on policy and political advocacy at the federal, state, and institutional levels. Rethinking traditional rationales for public financing, contributors to this volume offer alternatives for policymakers, administrators, faculty, students, and researchers struggling with this difficult practical dynamic. Contributors: M. Christopher Brown II, Pennsylvania State University; Jason L. Butler, University of Illinois; Choong-Geun Ching, Indiana University; Clifton F. Conrad, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Saran Donahoo, University of Illinois; James Farmer, JA-SIG uPortal; James C. Hearn, Vanderbilt University; Janet M. Holdsworth, University of Minnesota; Don Hossler, Indiana University; John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky; Mary Louise Trammell, University of Arizona; David J. Weerts, University of Wisconsin–Madison; William Zumeta, University of Washington

The University and Social Justice

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771135047
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The University and Social Justice written by Aziz Choudry and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, high-quality public education has turned university campuses into sites of resistance. This critical collection features analysis by students and staff members from twelve different countries.

Despite the Odds

Author : Merilee Serrill Grindle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691117997
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Despite the Odds written by Merilee Serrill Grindle and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Despite the Odds' examines five examples of education reform in South America, focusing on the political battle to secure reform in the face of powerfully entrenched opposition. It shows how strategic choices by reformers can reshape power equations & undermine institutional biases.

Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression

Author : Christian Davenport
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766001
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression written by Christian Davenport and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967-1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific details are reported, including who starts and ends the conflict, who the Black Panthers target (government or non-government actors), and which part of the government responds (the police or court). Specifically, proximate and government-oriented sources provide one assessment of events, whereas proximate and dissident-oriented sources have another; both converge on specific aspects of the conflict. The methodological implications of the study are clear; Davenport's findings prove that in order to understand contentious events, it is crucial to understand who collects or distributes the information in order to comprehend who reportedly does what to whom as well as why.

Higher Education Rulemaking

Author : Rebecca S. Natow
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421461
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education Rulemaking written by Rebecca S. Natow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal bureaucratic role -- The procedural process -- Policy actors' influence -- Strategies and powers of influence -- The role of policy actors' beliefs -- Higher education rulemaking in context -- The use and influence of technology

Degrees of Inequality

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465044964
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Inequality written by Suzanne Mettler and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens. The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled Americans from across the income spectrum to attend college and the nation led the world in the percentage of young adults with baccalaureate degrees. Yet since 1980, progress has stalled. Young adults from low to middle income families are not much more likely to graduate from college than four decades ago. When less advantaged students do attend, they are largely sequestered into inferior and often profit-driven institutions, from which many emerge without degrees—and shouldering crushing levels of debt. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account, she illuminates how political partisanship has overshadowed America’s commitment to equal access to higher education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners of for-profit colleges benefit, but for far too many students, higher education leaves them with little besides crippling student loan debt. Meanwhile, the nation’s public universities have shifted the burden of rising costs onto students. In an era when a college degree is more linked than ever before to individual—and societal—well-being, these pressures conspire to make it increasingly difficult for students to stay in school long enough to graduate. By abandoning their commitment to students, politicians are imperiling our highest ideals as a nation. Degrees of Inequality offers an impassioned call to reform a higher education system that has come to exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequality in America.