Power, Discourse, and the Purpose of Policy in Higher Education - by Allison L Palmadessa (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book traces the full history of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in its entirety, to the present. The fifty-six-year history of this landmark legislation is analyzed as a genealogical phenomenon through multiple methodological and theoretical frameworks. This allows the researcher to study the Act not in a linear or single approach, rather the blend of lenses and methods creates a means to study policy-making as a site of ideological reproduction and results in the exposure of power dynamics that obfuscate the hidden agenda by those in positions of power.

From the Back Cover

This book traces the full history of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in its entirety, to the present. The fifty-six-year history of this landmark legislation is analyzed as a genealogical phenomenon through multiple methodological and theoretical frameworks. This allows the researcher to study the Act not in a linear or single approach, rather the blend of lenses and methods creates a means to study policy-making as a site of ideological reproduction and results in the exposure of power dynamics that obfuscate the hidden agenda by those in positions of power.
Allison L. Palmadessa is Professor of History at Greensboro College, USA. She is also the author of Higher Education Divided (2020) and American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education (2017).

About the Author

Allison L. Palmadessa is Professor of History at Greensboro College, USA. She is also the author of Higher Education Divided (2020) and American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education (2017).