Open AccessHigher Education and the Politics of Disruption
Author(s) -
Henry A. Giroux
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chowanna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-9682
pISSN - 0137-706X
DOI - 10.31261/chowanna.2020.54.05
Subject(s) - neoliberalism (international relations) , dream , apostles , politics , democracy , tinker , power (physics) , economic justice , sociology , political science , political economy , law , psychology , philosophy , theology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , anthropology
At its best education is dangerous because it offers young people and other actors the promise of racial and economic justice, a future in which democracy becomes inclusive and a dream in which all lives matter. In a healthy society universities should be subversive; they should go against the grain, and give voice to the voiceless, the unmentionable and the whispers of truth that haunt the apostles of unchecked power and wealth. Pedagogy should be disruptive and unsettling and push hard against the common sense vocabularies of neoliberalism and its regime of affective management.