ERIC Number: EJ979524
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 15
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Neoliberalism in the Academic Borderlands: An On-Going Struggle for Equality and Human Rights
Darder, Antonia
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v48 n5 p412-426 2012
The article examines the negative impact of neoliberal policies upon the work of border intellectuals within the university, whose scholarship seeks to explicitly challenge longstanding structural inequalities and social exclusions. More specifically, the notion of neoliberal multiculturalism is defined and discussed with respect to the phenomenon of economic Darwinism and the whitewashing of contemporary academic labor, despite a tradition of progressive struggle within the academy. In response to the current counter-egalitarian climate of neoliberalism, a call is issued for a critical pedagogy that supports a revolutionary vision of human rights and democratic life.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Critical Theory, Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Educational Attitudes, Role of Education, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy, Civil Rights, Scholarship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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