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Advocating Heightened Education - Seeing and Inventing Academic Possibilities (Hardcover)
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Advocating Heightened Education - Seeing and Inventing Academic Possibilities (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Communication Pedagogy
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Colleges and universities face unprecedented pressure to streamline
and reduce their infrastructure. A new generation of reformers,
frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles and rising costs, dream of
education without schools. Those reforms, if realized, promise to
render education indistinguishable from other social spheres.
Advocating Heightened Education mobilizes situated theories of
learning to advocate the labor and expense that goes into
maintaining campuses. Higher education's bulky and incommensurable
institutions-from the community colleges and Ivy Leagues to the
regional public universities and small liberal arts campuses-serve
a critical modality. They ensure that educational forms remain
visible and available for critique. Their diversity of form retains
the possibility of divergent and transformative educational
futures. This ethnographic and archival study of two alternative
campuses, The Evergreen State College and California State
University, Monterey Bay, illustrates how educators advocate their
work by heightening its visibility and by modeling appreciation for
situated teaching and inquiry. It provides examples of those
advocacy techniques with stories of professional life and close
readings of historical documents that include institutional and
legislative reports, facilities memoranda, and course descriptions.
These materials offer a vibrant counter-narrative to reform
movements that seek to standardize the college experience. Scholars
of higher education, pedagogy, and communication will find this
book particularly interesting.
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