Resisting Neoliberal Schooling

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., (they/he) (aka Ant), long-time intersectional total liberation scholar-activist, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal and Transformative Justice Journal, and co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory and Hip Hop Studies and Activism. He is the National Director of Save the Kids and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. He has published over one hundred book chapters or articles and forty books. He has been interviewed by New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicles, Fresno Bee, Fox, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and Los Angeles Times.

Acknowledgments – Clifton Sanders: Foreword – Roderic Land: Preface – Ashley Cox/Lauralea Edwards/Anthony J. Nocella II/David Robles/Emily Thompson: Abolition Educators Dismantling Neoliberal Colonizer Standardized Schooling From Assessments to Rubricization – Anthony J. Nocella II: Dismantling Rubericization, Evaluation, and Standardization in Neoliberal Conformity: Building Community Colleges as Anti- Racist Public Intellectual Places of Knowledges – Elisa Stone: Combatting Stigma: Opposing Neoliberal Oppression through Intersectional, Transformative Activism – Lea Lani Kinikini: From Diversity to Justice: Expanding the Chief Diversity Officer "Roles" of Equity and Inclusion into Justice and Community – Elizabeth Vasileva/Will Boisseau: Resisting Neoliberalism Through Anarchist Studies and Critical Animal Studies Conferences – Adalberto Aguirre, Jr./Rubén Martinez: Faculty and Student Activism as Sites of Resistance to Neoliberalism in Higher Education – Richard Van Heertum: Neoliberalism, Neopopulism and the Assault on Higher Education – Victor M. Mendoza: Life Lessons Learned (L3) Inside a Neoliberal Capitalist Educational System – Laura I. Schleifer: Triple Helix: The Intertwining Strands of Biology, Ideology and Policy in the Neoliberal Revolution – Riley Clare Valentine: Bad Education: President Obama and the Neoliberalization of American Education – Steve Gennaro/Douglas Kellner: Neoliberalism, Democratization, and the Re-Visioning of Education – Frank A. Fear: Has The Last Bastion Fallen? – Caroline K. Kaltefleiter: Tied to the Loom: Alienation in the Neoliberal Academy, Anarcha-Feminism, and a Politics of Resistance and Care – David Bokovoy: Take Down the Wall: Higher Education at SLCC as Liberation for Incarcerated Students – Anthony J. Nocella II: Suggestions to University/ College Trustees: An Interview with Anthony Joseph Nocella – Paul R. Carr: Don’t Look Anywhere! Learning Without Stock Markets – Contributors’ Biographies – Index.

The myth that formal institutionalized education produces open-minded and critical thinkers who possess "academic freedom" to pursue what they think is important is part of the lie that structures neoliberal societies. This book presents some seeds for realizing, resisting, and overcoming this reality to instead foster equitable and critical-consciousness raising educational systems grounded in individuals' and communities' own interests, needs and experiences. Nathan Poirier, Co-Director, Students for Critical Animal Studies