Dangerous counterstories in the corporate academy : narrating for understanding, solidarity, resistance, and community in the age of neoliberalism

• Other Authors: Daniels, Emily A. (Editor), Porfilio, Bradley J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2013]
• Series: Critical constructions.
• Subjects: Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States.; Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States.; Critical pedagogy > United States.; Neoliberalism > United States.; Corporatization > United States.; Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.; Philosophy and theory of education.; Higher education, tertiary education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613991
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-125-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 269 pages)

Although the social reality is stark for progressive scholars who engage in scholarly activities or are committed to guiding their students to develop a social-just praxis in the circles of higher education, some scholars have found fissures amid the alienating, often hostile academic world to learn...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. Students and the neoliberal institution
• Chapter 1. Breaking the bank: Stories of financial, cultural and academic struggle from first-generation college students / Carrie Freie
• Chapter 2. Fear in the academy / Tina Wagle
• Chapter 3. Dangerous white lady / Shelley Jensen
• Part II. Surviving the institution: Classroom resistance(s)
• Chapter 4. College curriculum as counter discourse: The california immigration semester at occidental college / Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis, & Salvador C. Fernández
• Chapter 5. A tale of the teacher educator and the storyteller: Returning stories to the social studies classroom / Sarah A. Robert, Heather Killelea McEntarfer, & Karima Amin
• Chapter 6. Our excellent adventures with ncate: Stories of struggle, resistance, and hope / Leigh O'Brien & Sue Novinger
• Chapter 7. Autoethnography and the emergent public: Counterstories from a community college classroom / Jeanne Cameron
• Part III. In the belly of the beast: Radical scholars
• Chapter 8. Radical scholar as public intellectual in a marketplace of ideas / Paul L. Thomas
• Chapter 9. The skunk in the yogurt cup: Postformal academic blues as praxis / Tricia M. Kress
• Chapter 10. The personal is political: Feminist resistance to neoliberalism in the academy / Alison Happel
• Chapter 11. How do i keep my ideals and still teach? / E. Wayne Ross, Rich Gibson, Greg Queen, & Kevin D. Vinson
• Chapter 12. "won't back down:" counter-narratives of visibility and vulnerability in a bleak house / William M. Reynolds
• Chapter 13. Reflecting on insider/outsider critiques of teacher education, or 'don't talk about my momma' / Jason Michael Lukasik & Brian D. Schultz.