Rezension
The corporatization of higher education is undermining teaching and learning while eroding the public good and public interest across universities and colleges. Corporatization is an insidious process that leads to the dismantling of public institutions over time. Bringing together a number of amazing scholars and activists, this volume contests the neoliberal restructuring of universities and colleges. Anyone who cares about education and public institutions anywhere in the world should want to read this collection and share it with their students as well.
—Dr. Kevin Walby, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
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
Anthony Nocella and colleagues provide a hard-hitting critique of the pernicious influence of neoliberalism, cultural chauvinism, and other forms of bigotry on our educational system. They also offer something even more important -- possible paths for promoting its healing and transformation.
—Dr. A. Peter Castro, Professor of Anthropology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
This anthology presents a much-needed critique of the increasing rhetoric of return on investment (ROI) in public higher education. Drawing on critical pedagogy, the authors shed light on the assessment industry and offer multiple strategies on how to exit the homogenizing game of “academic excellence” performance goals.
—Dr. Mechthild Nagel, Professor, Philosophy, State University of New York, College at Cortland
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) famously identified the “white intellectual ghetto of the West” as the beating heart of America’s investment in racial capitalism and its networks of oppression. As he explained in “Black Power,” we teach, learn, labor, and live in a landscape of constant crisis, one produced materially and ideologically by our schools and universities. Resisting Neoliberal Schooling offers a way to understand that crisis as both ongoing and manufactured–designed to recreate, explain, and even commodify inequities rather than address or upend them. Destroying this neoliberal extractive system of education as it exists today represents an important step towards total liberation and equality.
—Dr. William Horne, Villanova University
This work is riveting, and explores oppressive practices perpetuated by institutions involved in higher education in a critical and easy-to-follow manner. I recommend this material to anyone who aims to challenge dominant group supremacy in academia.
—Brock M. Smith, Co-founder, FourLifers Incorporated
Here is a collection of essays which promise to challenge many of our cherished beliefs about our education systems including our trust that they are open, diverse, critical, independent and serve no masters.
—Les Mitchell, University of Fort Hare Hunterstoun Research Fellow
Resisting Neoliberal Schooling: Dismantling the Rubricization and Corporatization of Higher Education is a critical examination of the mechanisms within the institution of higher education that reinforce systemic inequalities. This is a book, in the vein of the classic “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” that compels instructors and students alike to challenge the dominant paradigm and social arrangements in higher education that obstructs the diversity and inclusion many institutions are claiming to strive towards in today’s world.
—Dr. Chandra Ward, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Tennessee
As higher education continues to concentrate on standardization, efficiency, and profit, Resisting Neoliberal Schooling is a must-needed text that recenters justice, collaboration, and liberation as central to the act of teaching.
—Zane McNeill, editor of Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism
Resisting Neoliberal Schooling brings together an exceptional group of contributors, all united in their determination to bring new understanding and visibility toward the devastating impacts of neoliberalism across academia. Moreover, they offer hope as what can be done now to challenge, reclaim, and rebuild academia and education anew. On these fronts - and others beside - the book is a tremendous success, and an essential read.
—Dr. Richard J. White, Reader, Human Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Portrait
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.
