Education & Emancipation

Against the marketization of the university

by Donya Alinejad on April 19, 2013

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The crisis in higher education is the result of a privatized culture of management. This is a plea for turning universities back over to the sciences.

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Freire or Friedman? In defense of critical education

by Sajjad Ali Malik on February 8, 2013

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Thomas Friedman may praise the emancipatory potential of online university courses, but are they really capable of producing more than docile workers?

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Over the past 3,5 months, a student strike against tuition hikes in Québec has evolved into one of the biggest anti-capitalist movements in North America.

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For over 100 days now, the students of Québec have been on strike in protest against rising tuition fees. This stunning video is rightly going viral.

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The only thing we need to become truly free is the final realization of our own freedom. Education must cultivate this emerging state of consciousness.

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Chile Rising: a documentary on the student revolt

by Jerome Roos on January 21, 2012

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For months, Chile has been convulsed by a massive student uprising. Fault Lines followed the protests and examined the underlying issues driving the anger.

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The neoliberal assault on university education

by Carlos Delclós on September 1, 2011

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While global elites continue their cynical assault on higher education unabated, the global student movement shows us that another world is possible.

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