Overview
- Written collaboratively by an academic and administrator, offering perspectives connecting theory and practice
- Discusses and critiques specific policies and structures in higher education
- Offers guidelines for engaging with the process of rethinking a university through the authors’ practice of hope
Part of the book series: Rethinking Higher Education (RHE)
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About this book
This book examines the restructuring of universities on the basis of neoliberal models, and provides a vision of the practice of hope in higher education as a means to counteract this new reality. The authors present a re-imagined version of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” to highlight the absurdity of policy trends and decisions within higher education and shock people out of indifference towards action. The authors suggest the ‘practice of hope’ as a way to create a system that moves beyond neoliberalism and embraces equity as commonplace. Providing real-world possibilities of the practice of hope, the book offers possibilities of what could happen if neoliberalism at the higher education level is counteracted by the practice of hope.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Clifton S. Tanabe currently is the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and is a Professor in the Department Educational Leadership and Foundations at UTEP. Previously, he served as Chief of Staff-Executive Assistant to the Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and held the positions of Associate Professor in the College of Education and Lecturer in Law in the William S. Richardson School of Law also at UH Mānoa. He was also the Director of the Leaders for the Next Generation Program, Co-Director of the Hawaii Education Policy Center also at UH Mānoa, and is the founder and former Co-Director of the Research Center for Cultural Diversity and Community Renewal at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. Dr. Tanabe holds a Ph.D in Educational Policy Studies and a law degree, both from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His scholarly interests include higher and K-12 education law and policy, educational and political philosophy, education access and social mobility.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education and the Practice of Hope
Authors: Jeanne Marie Iorio, Clifton S. Tanabe
Series Title: Rethinking Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8645-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8644-2Published: 09 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8647-3Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8645-9Published: 31 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-1479
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 127
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership