Higher education divided : national expectations and the bifurcation of purpose and national identity, 1946-2016 / Allison L. Palmadessa.
Palmadessa, Allison L.
2020
LA227.4
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Title Higher education divided : national expectations and the bifurcation of purpose and national identity, 1946-2016 / Allison L. Palmadessa.
Author Palmadessa, Allison L.
ISBN 9783030507466 (electronic book)
3030507467 (electronic book)
3030507459
9783030507459
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50746-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-50746-6 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-50
Call Number LA227.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.73
Summary This book critically considers how tertiary institutions of higher education in the United States are charged with the duty of preserving democracy, teaching citizenship literacy, and contributing to economic stability. The author offers a comparative analysis of how presidential and national policy agendas shape these social institutions re-creation and re-constitution of ideological identities that influence the social position of the participants in the institution types, creating a divide in the realization of national identity across institutional and class lines. In fulfilling this role, four- and two-year institutions become representations of the social class divisions in the United States as the institutions and their students experience American national identity differently. By answering a call to serve the American public and presidential agendas, institutions of higher education reinforce the economic and social divisions in American society, resulting in varied understandings of American national identity.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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