Culture and Ideology in Higher Education: Advancing a Critical Agenda

by William G. Tierney

Overview

This book is a unique invitation to rethink some of the most basic assumptions of higher education. The essays demonstrate that researchers have often concentrated on issues of effectiveness and efficiency in academe, rather than on issues of social justice and democracy. Participants in and organizations connected with higher education operate in ongoing patterns of struggle that embody competing conceptions of reality and what counts for knowledge. The essays in this volume make up a chorus of voices shaped by an interaction of dominant and subordinate forms of power. There is a focus on critical theory and the belief that education can be a transformative activity that creates conditions for empowerment.

Within the framework of this book, a number of chapters deal with how those in power insert their ideas into academe. Other chapters uncover a politics of hope, and of possibility. The book is not a definitive statement but rather an initial comment to encourage discussion. Those studying curriculum and instruction, as well as all faculty, administrators, and researchers in higher education will find this book a comprehensive resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275934699
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

WILLIAM G. TIERNEY is Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Eduation, Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas (Praeger Publishers, 1989).

Table of Contents

The Research Frontier
Border Crossings: Critical Theory and the Study of Higher Education by William G. Tierney
Advancing a Critical Agenda by Yvonna S. Lincoln
Academic Borders
Ideology and Identity in Postsecondary Institutions by William G. Tierney
The "Official" Ideology of Higher Education: Ironies and Inconsistencies by Sheila Slaughter
The Research Imperative by Patricia J. Gumport
A Model of Agency for Postgraduate Education by William Foster
People on the Borders
Understanding Cultural Conflict by Ken Kemper
Bringing Some Class to Teaching: Following the Pied Pipers of Teacher Education Reform by James T. Sears, Amy K. Otis-Wilborn, and J. Dan Marshall
The Public Interest and Professional Labor: Research Universities by Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter
Teaching Lesbian and Gay Development: A Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Anthony R. D'Augelli
Selected Bibliography
Index