take back higher education race, youth, and the crisis of democracy in the post-civil rights era
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Take Back Higher Education
Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights
Era
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Drs. Henry and Susan Giroux
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communications in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University in Canada. Susan Searls Giroux is Assistant Professor in the English Department at McMaster University. They’ve both written a number of books on the theory of education.
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How is our democracy in crisis?
• Growing hostility towards education
• Decline of the welfare state
• Loss of the public sphere
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Mid-1970s backlash against affirmative action and busing
Schools attacked for inefficiency
Education as “the weak link” in the War on Terror
John Walker Lindh
Growing Hostility Towards Education
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Decline of the Welfare State
• Welfare Cuts
• Health Care Cuts
• Financial Aid Cuts
• Growth of the Prison-Industrial Complex
• Tax Cuts Favoring the Wealthy
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Loss of the Public Sphere
• Cynicism
• Collective needs give way to individual needs
• Dissent as unpatriotic
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Who causes these problems?
Corporations The Bush Administration
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Corporations
Replace social values with consumer values
Turn education in to job training
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Corporations
Globalization Influence governmental policy
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Attacks on education Slashing social programs
Bush Administration
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Bush Administration
Fear Mongering Quashing Discussion
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How can we save democracy?
• Develop a vocabulary of resistance
• Faculty need to become more publicly engaged
• Cultivate critical thinking in the younger generation