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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 117–135.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Henry A. Giroux Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Once More, with Conviction Defending Higher Education as a Public Good henry a. giroux If the university does not take seriously and rigorously its role as a guardian of wider civic freedoms, as interrogator of more and more...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Francesco Crocco Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY francesco crocco Chanting “Education is a right! Fight! Fight! Fight!” a coalition of students, faculty, and staff from the City University of New York (CUNY...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 241–248.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Aaron Porter Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Student Unrest, University Unrest The English Gamble with the Future of Higher Education aaron porter The year 2010 has perhaps been the most signifi cant of any pe- riod in the history of English higher education. A year that began...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 35–47.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Gert Biesta Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 How Useful Should the University Be? On the Rise of the Global University and the Crisis in Higher Education gert biesta Introduction: The Crisis in Higher Education In many countries around the world there is a sense of crisis con...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 3–32.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Michelle Ty Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Introduction Higher Education on Its Knees michelle ty “L’istruzione é in ginocchio” (Education is on its knees), a popular Italian protest slogan goes.1 To think of the present state of higher education by attending to the lineaments...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 145–177.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., and the development of ghettos. From the perspective of the welfare project, the immigrants became “risky” as they were profiled in terms of their higher probability of developing suboptimal or dysfunctional behaviors that endanger the welfare state. The Danish experience is analyzed from a broader thesis...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the necessity to include dialectical procedures—that is, genesis and diachronic analysis. In his seminal work The History of the Development of the Higher Mental Functions , written in 1931, Vygotsky attempts to surpass the methods of psychology, which merely structure the final data obtained through...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 95–107.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Michael Bérubé Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 The Futility of the Humanities michael bérubé In 2003, I published an article in the British journal Arts and Hu- manities in Higher Education titled “The Utility of the Arts and Humanities.”1 I gave that paper as a talk at a handful...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 June 2011
...- cialization has, as Morgan Adamson argues in “The Financial- ization of Student Life,” been given “surprisingly little attention” even by academics concerned with the privatization of higher edu- cation. As Adamson points out, the rise in student debt is rare- ly situated within larger...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 June 2011
... evaluating a lot of things, from hospitals to the work of ministries themselves, but from now on it’s the evaluation of uni- versities and of higher education in general that will attract the most attention. And, evaluated in this manner, universities begin to regain their prestige, at long last...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 301–304.
Published: 01 June 2011
...). She is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and Florence Scott Professor Emerita of English at the Univer- sity of Southern California. aaron porter is a higher education consultant and founder of Aaron Ross Porter Consultancy Ltd. and a freelance journalist. He was president...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 109–116.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Geoffrey Galt Harpham Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Why We Need the 16,772nd Book on Shakespeare geoffrey galt harpham Higher education is affl icted by so many threats that it might seem pointless to try to improve the situation by removing just one. But the one I have...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 June 2009
... is the notion of a higher return under the condi- tion of higher risks. The least probable profi t results in the highest rate of interest. An idea is more interesting—that is, it generates a higher interest—if its assumptions are less probable. The less pre- dictable a narrative is, the more interesting...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 233–239.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to imagine the multitudes, as seen in reports in the press and internet in London and Italy and Greece and Dublin and the Philippines and Croatia and California and elsewhere: online stu- dent movements internationally call for worldwide student mobi- lizing in March 2011 in defense of public higher...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of public universities that these challenges, rath- er than that of providing a fi rst-rate higher education to an ever- changing public, are now organizing the university’s future. Dean Edley’s plan for ramping up online education is forwarded with two avowed goals: to increase...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to translate their on- campus activism into a work of scholarship and to thereby synthesize nearly a decade of engagement and struggle to defend public higher education in California through the radi- cal possibilities that remain strong within both multicultural and cultural studies. We take...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Valley, where microprocessors are born, filter and recirculate air to mitigate dust’s impact on chips. Yet the humans who work in those rooms, disproportionately women and ethnic minorities, suffer higher rates of cancer, aneurysms, and birth defects due to their proximity to toxic gas. 2 Of course...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with every new issue and at times for unlikely constellations of divergent and complementary voices speaking across disciplinary lines and tongues. Our special issues, with titles such as “Toward Planetary Decolonial Feminisms,” “At the Intersections of Ecocriticism,” “Higher Education on Its Knees,” “Affect...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
... compared to art. But, as Zhu argued, Hegel did not mean to compare art and nature and thereby find the latter lacking. Instead, it is the work of spirit to begin in nature but ultimately sublate it through higher levels of development and consciousness. This is not to be taken as an aesthetic judgment...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 121–158.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in a continuous fashion: “The part of the channel nearest the ground will drain fi rst, then successively higher parts, and fi nally the charge from the cloud itself. So the vis- ible lightning bolt moves up from ground to cloud as the massive electric currents fl ow down...