Advocating Heightened Education
Seeing and Inventing Academic Possibilities
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0961-8 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0961-8 (ISBN)
Advocating Heightened Education details a model of educational advocacy drawn from the histories and faculty stories of two unusual college campuses. It counters the impression of higher education as superficial and stagnant by showing academic routines to be inventive and mutable.
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 It provides examples of those advocacy techniques with stories of professional life and close readings of historical documents that include institutional and legislative reports, facilities memoranda, and course descriptions.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.
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.
Kathleen F. McConnell is professor of rhetoric studies in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University.
Advocating Heightened Education: Seeing and Inventing Academic Possibilities
Introduction
Chapter 1: Something Will Be Happening
Chapter 2: The Strangely Appropriate Texture of Academic Life
Chapter 3: Invention’s Scaffolding
Chapter 4: Losing Sight of Invention
Conclusion: An Assemblage of Possibilities
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Critical Communication Pedagogy |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 161 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 417 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0961-6 / 1793609616 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0961-8 / 9781793609618 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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