Unsettling the University

Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education

AvSharon Stein

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Shifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In Unsettling the University, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point—one informed by decolonial theories and practices—for addressing these issues.Stein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post–World War II "Golden Age." Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education—the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility—are fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expropriation, and ecological destruction.Unsettling the University invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-31
Mått:127 x 203 x 28 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical University Studies
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421445045

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Sharon Stein (VANCOUVER, BC / MUSQUEAM TERRITORY) is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of British Columbia and a visiting professor with the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University. She is the founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network and a founding member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective.

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Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education is not only a critique of higher education but rather a grounded approach to critique hegemonic systems that reproduce colonial foundations and white supremacy....This call to action by Stein urges not only higher education institutions and individuals to move beyond superficial gestures but also to take concrete steps toward decolonization and a social transformation.—Globalisation, Societies and Education

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1. A Colonial History of the Higher Education PresentChapter 2. The Violent Origins of US Higher Education in the Colonial and Antebellum ErasChapter 3. Dispossession at the Roots of "Democracy's Colleges": The Colonial Legacy of Land-Grant InstitutionsChapter 4. The "Golden Age" of Higher Education and the Underside of the American DreamChapter 5. Inclusion is Not Reparation: Reckoning with Violence or Reproducing Higher Education Exceptionalism?Chapter 6. Imagining Higher Education OtherwiseAcknowledgementsWorks CitedNotesIndex