Neoliberalism makes universities detached from pressing social problems

Evidence

Neoliberalism further reinforces the university as the “ivory tower,” thus making less relevant the addressing of pressing socioeconomic issues. Freire reminds us that “a university that is beyond and above the social and political system of the society where it exists is unfeasible” (Escobar, Fernandez, Guevara-Niebla & Freire, 1994, p. 136). — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 184

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal education policy deliberately dismantled the art-school mixing of working-class culture and theory — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1541; Universities are embedded in and implicated in their communities’ crises — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 186