Overview
Employs interdisciplinary methods to explore higher education in the Post-Obama era
Serves as an excellent resource for higher education graduate programs
Presents a detailed historical overview on the relationship between higher education, the government, and the public
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education Divided
Book Subtitle: National Expectations and the Bifurcation of Purpose and National Identity, 1946-2016
Authors: Allison L. Palmadessa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50746-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50745-9Published: 14 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50748-0Published: 15 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50746-6Published: 13 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 146
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, History of Education