Book chapter
Newfield as a New Field?: The Substance and Subjectivities of a Cross-Disciplinary Voice in the Public Domain
The Future of American Higher Education, pp.132-151
Routledge
2022
DOI: 10.4324/9781003447818-13
Abstract
Christopher Newfield has assumed the role of critic, philosopher, cynic, idealist, and advocate regarding how American universities enact their responsibility to educate, serve, and contribute to society. Conventionally, across the corpus of Newfield's work he presents a synthesis of the social institution of higher education where he tells a story of the organizational and administrative issues, controversies, structural disincentives, and barriers to affirming educational values such as quality, learning, access, and open inquiry. This chapter explores his contributions, but it does not simply characterize Newfield's arguments as the object of analysis. Rather, in evaluating Newfield's public work the scholar becomes the subject of the analysis. Tracing the patterns of Newfield's public scholarly footprint reveals some of the ugliness about inequalities that the academy produces, enacts, and resists. Further, in framing the scope and reach of this scholar's public discourse, I consider cleavages that present as opportunities for reimagining public engagement within and external to the university context.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Newfield as a New Field?: The Substance and Subjectivities of a Cross-Disciplinary Voice in the Public Domain
- Creators
- Cassie L. Barnhardt
- Contributors
- Joseph L. DeVitis (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Future of American Higher Education, pp.132-151
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003447818-13
- Alternative title
- Newfield as a New Field?
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2022
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984436283402771
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