Description: Welcome to the 2010 issue of Thought & Action, the NEA Educational Journal. Our theme for this issue is "Radical Transformations," a term encompassing both radical transformations that have been imposed upon higher education, as well as the political implications of the term- how higher education can radically transform society to create a more just, equitable, and democratic world. As George Counts wrote in his famous pamphlet published at the height of the last Great Depression, "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" Ellen Schrecker of Yeshiva University interprets the political origins of the current crisis in "The Roots of the Right-Wing Attack on Higher Education," which she traces to the 1960s. Even while higher education was growing expo-nentially, Schrecker argues, controversies on the nation's campuses helped create a conservative reaction that "so undermined public support for the academy that most Americans now see the nation's faculties as radical, elitist, and somehow alien to most ordinary citizens. Underlying much of the political debate was " confrontation between two...(from overview)
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Publication Year: 2010
Type: Journal
Format: Paperback
Subject Area: Education
Publication Name: Thought & Action
Author: Various
Publisher: NEA Interactive Media
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Climate Change Debate, Education, Ethic Studies, Humanities, Student Evaluations
Number of Pages: 165
