...Cathy N. Davidson Cathy N. Davidson analyzes new directions in higher education in light of both online learning, peer-to-peer, and connectivist methods of learning and the topdown, hierarchical, centralized online education being promoted by massive open online courses (MOOCs) emanating from a few...

... GUIN€A INTRODUCTION: MORAL EDUCATION AND NATION-STATE FORMATION The title of this paper, Take Care of Public Telephones, came to me in the mail. It is one of several exhortations that served as cancellation marks on the envelopes of letters that I received from Papua New Guinea over...

...Gloria Diaz; Gabrielle Cabrera; Carla Moore; Laura Yakas In this article the authors address critical concerns about what is missing from discussions about diversity in higher education. Reflecting on their experiences as women marked as “diverse” subjects, the authors identify the nuance...

... everyday interaction. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 education ethnography inequality Parent-Teacher Associations Manhattan’s Public School (PS) X is an elementary school situated in the midst of housing projects located in a hypergentrified neighborhood. 1 The building...

..., both in Turkey and in exile. The authors argue that the current struggles of oppositional academics inside and outside Turkey offer insight into the nature of the global crisis in neoliberal academia based on precarious working conditions and commodification of education. Some of the answers...

...Faisal Devji Abstract This article argues that the global emergence of children at the forefront of causes from climate change to education reveals a contradiction at the heart of politics. If politics is defined by the making of a future, the children who are meant to be its heirs are crucial...

... belong, but those of the more comfortable, educated, professional middle classes. It asks what the history of the struggles of these subaltern middle classes tells us about the limits of the middle-class idea and about the conditions necessary for the consolidation of particular groups as middle-class...

... attempt at maintaining the wholeness of imperial identity (after the loss of empire) rather than a pathological condition of aphasia. The essay argues that French imperial identity is nurtured by education and state intervention in the production and reproduction of political culture...

... and reasoning in the language of the educator, the statesman, the colonizer, the slaver, the exterminator. In the end, though, an epistemological rupture would entail more than differential languages; it requires that significance no longer be located in historical inscription. Copyright 2011 by Duke...

... of the “as if.” Ambiguously positioned between fun and education, playful methods of preparedness command attention from children and adults—what I call “attentive play”—as they frame and reframe the games to figure out, “Is this play?” Ultimately, the article shows that attentive play buys time for the state to temporarily...

...Arvind Rajagopal Werner Sollors is one of the first scholars of American literature to focus on African American literature before it was thought to constitute a canon in the academy. Unlike many other scholars who shared his focus, he completed his education in postwar Germany. The title of his...

...- stituted in contractual relationships; the grand narratives of progress and emancipation (and their intersection with the totalitarian state) being dis- placed through the decline of the intellectual and the rise of local narratives; the educated, knowledgeable self being displaced by a self...

... ask similar questions of key concepts in education, citizenship, medicine, and the law: What would these concepts look like if disabled figures were our modal sub- jects? Disability itself covers a multitude of heterogeneous axes of difference...

... to equality. Time became one means of reconciling equality and the need for “compensatory discrimination”; lawmakers proposed reserved seats for lower castes in educational institutions and in public-sector employment as a temporary departure from a liberal baseline of formal equality. Another means...

... A Virtual University* . . . Ken King, the new executive director of CREN, states, “If technology can rescue higher education from its increasingly dire financial straits, then a virtual higher education network supporting the building...

...Figure 14 Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Faculty of Education, contemporary view from the southeast. Photograph by the author. ...

... action measure. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 campus climate law performativity Over the last several decades, climate has become an increasingly commonplace term for describing how higher education campuses feel, especially with regard to common vectors of structural...