What Is Wrong with Academia Today? : Essays on the Politicization of American Education

by Wirth, Rex S.; Whiddon, Thomas R.; Manson, Tony J.; Pool, Harbison

• ISBN13: 9780773449749
• ISBN10: 0773449744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-09
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Author Biography

Dr. Tony J. Manson has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education and Social Studies (K-12)from Wayne State University, a Master of Arts degree in School Curriculum from Eastern Michigan University and an earned Doctor of Philosophy from Kansas University in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Teacher Education. Dr. Rex S. Wirth received a BA degree from Weber State, he served his country in Vietnam, attended the University of Tennessee and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science.Dr. Thomas R. Whiddon received a BA in Biology from Nebraska Weleyan University. After teaching science in Nebraska, attended the University of Montana where he received MS in Exercise, and University of Montana to receive an EdD. in Curriculum with an emphasis in Higher Education.

Table of Contents

Bureaucracy as democracy : instruction as higher education	p. 1
Technology and higher education : a view from neo-Ludditeville	p. 13
Corporateering, education, and the academy	p. 29
Student grades : a portal for corporatizing the academy	p. 63
Pluralism and democracy : fading value systems in American higher education	p. 81
The freedom insurgency : a study of the students' rights and academic freedom movements	p. 113
The myth of academic freedom	p. 135
American Indians : in pursuit of their academic dreams	p. 205
The purpose of diversity in higher education	p. 215
Adjuncts : the invisible faculty	p. 229
The fallout from politicization of education	p. 239
Tale of horror in acadumbia	p. 255
The academy's final shift?	p. 275
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