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Higher education divided : national expectations and the bifurcation of purpose and national identity, 1946-2016 / Allison L. Palmadessa.

9783030507466 (electronic book)
3030507467 (electronic book)
3030507459
9783030507459

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50746-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

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10.1007/978-3-030-50746-6 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-50

LA227.4

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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.

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