Between Citizens and the State

The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

Christopher P. Loss

EPUB
ca. 36,99
Amazon iTunes Thalia.de Hugendubel Bücher.de ebook.de kobo Osiander Google Books Barnes&Noble bol.com Legimi yourbook.shop Kulturkaufhaus ebooks-center.de
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Hinweis: Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.

Princeton University Press img Link Publisher

Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)

Beschreibung

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state.


Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century.


At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Kundenbewertungen

Schlagwörter

Education, Adult education, Columbia University, Fraternities and sororities, Higher education, Political science, Black Power, Unemployment, War effort, Criticism, Student loan, Fulbright Program, Historically black colleges and universities, Princeton University Press, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, In loco parentis, Education Act, G.I. Bill, Teach-in, The New York Times, Undergraduate education, Funding, Doctorate, Rights, Lyndon B. Johnson, Americans, Military service, Middle class, National Youth Administration, Cornell University, Of Education, Politics, Feminist movement, Institution, American Council on Education, Studebaker, National security, Student, Policy, Classroom, Education policy, Psychologist, Curriculum, Racism, Academic freedom, Students' union, Activism, International relations, Student group, Psychology, Graduate school, Profession, War on Poverty, Junior college, Citizenship, Employment, Land-grant university, Politician, World War II, Legislation, World War I, Teacher, Credential, University of Chicago, Grassroots, Learning, Social science, Affirmative action, Lecture, Educational television