Power, Discourse, and the Purpose of Policy in Higher Educati... - 9783031437083

Power, Discourse, and the Purpose of Policy in Higher EducationA Genealogical Study of the Higher Education Act\nAuthor(s): Allison L. Palmadessa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031437083, 978-3031437083\nSynopsis\nThis 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.