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Building Research Collaboratives Among Schools and Universities: Lessons From the Field

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

In a previous issue of Mind, Brain, and Education, Hinton and Fischer argue that educational research needs to be grounded in the lived realities of school life. They advocate for research schools as a venue for accomplishing this. The Center … Continue reading →

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Between the Ivory Tower and the Assembly Line

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

The tendency to describe intellectuals as a single coherent group papers over these experiences of exploitation, and conceals the very real struggles that condition intellectual production. The antagonisms of the institutions of knowledge are resolved into a myth of unity, … Continue reading →

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Seeking Good Change: discovering the Transformative Potential of Higher Education

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper explores ways in which aspirations for development (“good change”) are battered currently by forces and challenges that appear to be diminishing opportunities for social justice, equity and harmony. There are many examples of good change, some of which … Continue reading →

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Imagining the University

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Despite both positive and negative perceptions of the current state of higher education, the contemporary debate over what it is to be a university is limited. Most of all, it is limited imaginatively. The range of imagined options is narrow. … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people. Henry Giroux exposes the corporate forces at … Continue reading →

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Dysfunctional PhDs in a dysfunctional university

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

If one’s experience as a PhD student is dominated by hierarchy, perhaps that also says something about the changes occurring in academia more generally. What academia is becoming, as a whole, sometimes shines in the way that one experiences it … Continue reading →

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Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Giorgio Bertini

What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what may be the last places where they are … Continue reading →

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A Machiavellian Guide to Destroying Public Universities

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Giorgio Bertini

Denigrate public education, and public institutions in general, as drains on private wealth and “job makers” to the point that no one would dare ask for increased support. Take advantage of economic downturns to instigate “taxpayer outrage” in order to … Continue reading →