TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,Jennifer S.
TI  - Longing for Justice: Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda 
SN  - 9780802099785
U1  - 378/.015 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Democracy and education
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Higher education and state
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Higher Education and Democracy’s Agenda: Resisting “Streamlined” Education --; 2. Higher Education and the Social Contract: Considering the “We” of Public Life --; 3. Civic Engagement and Service Learning: The Burden of Liberal Norms --; 4. “What Do You Think? 41 Bullets?”: The Relationship of the Subject and the Social --; 5. Liberal Norms and Questions of Practice: Education, Ethics, and Interests --; 6. Epistemological Architectures: Possibilities for Understanding the Social --; 7. The Work of the “We”: Democracy’s Agenda and Curricular and Pedagogical Possibilities --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education’s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. Jennifer S. Simpson begins with three questions. First, what is the nature of the social contract that universities have with public life? Second, how might this social contract shape undergraduate education? And third, how do specific approaches to knowledge and undergraduate education inform how students understand society?In a bold challenge to conventional wisdom about Higher Education, Simpson argues that today’s neoliberal educational norms foreground abstract concepts and leave the complications of real life, especially the intricacies of power, unexamined. Analysing modern teaching techniques, including service learning and civic engagement, Simpson concludes that for Higher Education to serve democracy it must strengthen students’ abilities to critically analyse social issues, recognize and challenge social inequities, and pursue justice
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619661
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442619661
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442619661/original
ER  -