Community colleges and the politics of sociospatial scale |
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Authors: | David F Ayers |
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Institution: | (1) School of Education, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA |
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Abstract: | In an analysis of 421 community college mission statements, I demonstrate how community colleges recontextualize a dominant
discourse in which economic activity at the global scale transcends regulation, the nation-state lacks the moral authority
to influence markets, and local communities have no choice but to adapt. Findings suggest that the community college has appropriated
economic development as a mission priority and tacitly accommodated scalar relations typical of post-Fordism. On the other
hand, a rival hypothesis suggests a competing trend in which colleges prepare and empower students to engage in sociopolitical
processes at a global scale. |
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