pt. 1. Historical perspective. Races, rhetoric, and the contest over civic education / Susan Searls Giroux ; History as a challenge to the idea of the university / Jeffrey J. Williams ; Class consciousness and the junior college movement : creating a docile workforce / William DeGenaro ; Hegemony and the discourse of the land grand movement : historicizing as a point of departure / Danika M. Brown
pt. 2. Emerging trends. Marketing excellence in higher education / Christopher Carter ; Teaching work : academic labor and social class / Bill Hendricks ; Capitalizing on disaster : how the political right is using disaster to privatize public schooling / Kenneth J. Saltman
pt. 3. Toward a pedagogy of hope. Deweyan hopefulness in a time of despair / Stephen M. Fishman ; What's hope got to do with it? Toward a theory of hope and pedagogy / Dale Jacobs ; Liberating "liberatory" edication, or what do we mean by "liberty" anyway? / Jeffrey M. Ringer ; Afterword : civic engagement and critical pedagogy / John W. Presley.