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Higher Education for Economic Advancement and Engaged Citizenship: An Analysis of the U.S. Department of Education Discourse
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 83, Number 1, January/February 2012
- pp. 49-72
- 10.1353/jhe.2012.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
In this study of government rhetoric, the author draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality to argue that the officially endorsed neoliberal perspective cannot envision higher education outside economic rationality and proposes an agonistic model of democracy as a framework for conceptualizing and practicing citizenship on campus.