Higher Education Divided: National Expectations and the Bifurcation of Purpose and National Identity, 1946-2016 - Couverture souple

Palmadessa, Allison L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030507483 ISBN 13 : 9783030507480

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

This book critically considers how tertiary institutions of higher education in the United States are charged with the duty of preserving democracy, teaching citizenship literacy, and contributing to economic stability. The author offers a comparative analysis of how presidential and national policy agendas shape these social institutions' re-creation and re-constitution of ideological identities that influence the social position of the participants in the institution types, creating a divide in the realization of national identity across institutional and class lines. In fulfilling this role, four- and two-year institutions become representations of the social class divisions in the United States as the institutions and their students experience American national identity differently. By answering a call to serve the American public and presidential agendas, institutions of higher education reinforce the economic and social divisions in American society, resulting in varied understandings of American national identity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Allison L. Palmadessa is Associate Professor of History at Greensboro College, USA. She is also the author of American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education (2017).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030507483
• ISBN 13: 9783030507480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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