Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy: Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism

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Year of Publication
2012
Contributors Author: John Buschman
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237 pp.
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Scarecrow Press, Inc.
City
Lanham, MD
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978-0-8108-8528-8
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Should we be bothered by library marketing and advertising in the classroom, and if so, why? : an introduction An historical view I : a précis on the entanglements of democracy, education, and libraries in America An historical view II : a précis on advertising in schools, marketing in libraries, and the appeal of neoliberalism From theoretical to empirical critiques of advertising : have they deepened understanding of democracy and our educative institutions? Tocqueville and the centrifugal/centripetal forces within America : why (and how much) our practices in libraries and classrooms matter A practical communitarianism : educative institutions, social bonds, and neoliberalism's incursions Deliberative democratic theory's deeper critique : the profound effects of neoliberalism's grammar in educative institutions Looking ahead at neoliberalism's trajectory : the continuing interests of democracy and educative institutions : a conclusion