Read more
Resisting Neoliberal Schooling: Dismantling the Rubricization and Corporatization of Higher Education, edited by award-winning author and professor Anthony J. Nocella II, is the first book that critiques the use of rubrics in assessment and evaluation within education and the effects of the rubric as a tool for social and intellectual control. This powerful theoretical intervention goes beyond the most dangerous academic repressive theory, standardization, and critically interrogates the next step in academic control, rubricization. Nocella, a public intellectual on the school-to-prison pipeline and academic repression, gathers together brilliant scholars from around the world to write on the mass normalization, assimilation, homogenization, and commodification of knowledge learning, creation, and analysis. The most important theme of this book is the challenging, resisting, and explaining of neoliberalism in education. This thought-provoking and engaging anthology has writings by Clifton Sanders, Roderic Land, Ashley Cox, Lauralea Edwards, Anthony J. Nocella II, David Robles, Emily Thompson, Elisa Stone, Lea Lani Kinikini, Elizabeth Vasileva, Will Boisseau, Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Rubén Martinez, Richard Van Heertum, Victor M. Mendoza, Laura Schleifer, Riley Clare Valentine, Steve Gennaro, Doug Kellner, Frank A. Fear, Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, David Bokovoy, Anthony J. Nocella, and Paul R. Carr.
List of contents
Acknowledgments - Clifton Sanders: Foreword - Roderic Land: Preface - Ashley Cox/Lauralea Edwards/Anthony J. Nocella II/David Robles/Emily Thompson: Abolition Educators Dismantling Neoliberal Colonizer Standardized Schooling From Assessments to Rubricization - Anthony J. Nocella II: Dismantling Rubericization, Evaluation, and Standardization in Neoliberal Conformity: Building Community Colleges as Anti- Racist Public Intellectual Places of Knowledges - Elisa Stone: Combatting Stigma: Opposing Neoliberal Oppression through Intersectional, Transformative Activism - Lea Lani Kinikini: From Diversity to Justice: Expanding the Chief Diversity Officer "Roles" of Equity and Inclusion into Justice and Community - Elizabeth Vasileva/Will Boisseau: Resisting Neoliberalism Through Anarchist Studies and Critical Animal Studies Conferences - Adalberto Aguirre, Jr./Rubén Martinez: Faculty and Student Activism as Sites of Resistance to Neoliberalism in Higher Education - Richard Van Heertum: Neoliberalism, Neopopulism and the Assault on Higher Education - Victor M. Mendoza: Life Lessons Learned (L3) Inside a Neoliberal Capitalist Educational System - Laura I. Schleifer: Triple Helix: The Intertwining Strands of Biology, Ideology and Policy in the Neoliberal Revolution - Riley Clare Valentine: Bad Education: President Obama and the Neoliberalization of American Education - Steve Gennaro/Douglas Kellner: Neoliberalism, Democratization, and the Re-Visioning of Education - Frank A. Fear: Has The Last Bastion Fallen? - Caroline K. Kaltefleiter: Tied to the Loom: Alienation in the Neoliberal Academy, Anarcha-Feminism, and a Politics of Resistance and Care - David Bokovoy: Take Down the Wall: Higher Education at SLCC as Liberation for Incarcerated Students - Anthony J. Nocella II: Suggestions to University/ College Trustees: An Interview with Anthony Joseph Nocella - Paul R. Carr: Don't Look Anywhere! Learning Without Stock Markets - Contributors' Biographies - Index.
About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II , Ph.D., (they/he) (aka Ant), long-time intersectional total liberation scholar-activist, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the
Peace Studies Journal and
Transformative Justice Journal, and co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory and Hip Hop Studies and Activism. He is the National Director of Save the Kids and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. He has published over one hundred book chapters or articles and forty books. He has been interviewed by
New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicles, Fresno Bee, Fox, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and
Los Angeles Times .
Report
This anthology presents a much-needed critique of the increasing rhetoric of return on investment (ROI) in public higher education. Drawing on critical pedagogy, the authors shed light on the assessment industry and offer multiple strategies on how to exit the homogenizing game of "academic excellence" performance goals. -Dr. Mechthild Nagel, Professor, Philosophy, State University of New York, College at Cortland
