Information liberation. Challenging the corruptions of information power

4

Margaret Scotford Archer, Social Origins of Educational Systems (London: Sage, 1979).

5

For critiques of some disciplines, see for example Stanislav Andreski, Social Sciences as Sorcery (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973); Trevor Pateman (ed.), Counter Course: A Handbook for Course Criticism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).

6

Some good treatments — all of US higher education — are J. Victor Baldridge, Power and Conflict in the University: Research in the Sociology of Complex Organizations (New York: Wiley, 1971); Theodore Caplow and Reece J. McGee, The Academic Marketplace (New York: Basic Books, 1958); Lionel S. Lewis, Scaling the Ivory Tower: Merit and its Limits in Academic Careers (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975); Arthur S. Wilke (ed.), The Hidden Professoriate: Credentialism, Professionalism, and the Tenure Crisis (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979).

7

Charles Derber, William A. Schwartz and Yale Magrass, Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

8

Brian Martin (ed.), Confronting the Experts (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).

9

The programme run by Gary Huber is described in “Bucking the system,” Newsweek, 10 January 1972, p. 26.

10

Jun Ui, “The interdisciplinary study of environmental problems,” Kogai — The Newsletter from Polluted Japan, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1977, pp. 12-24.

11

See also Peter Abbs and Graham Carey, Proposal for a New College (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1977); Bill Draves, The Free University: A Model for Lifelong Learning (Chicago: Association Press, 1980); Jonathan Kozol, Free Schools (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972); Michael P. Smith, The Libertarians and Education (London: Allen and Unwin, 1983).

12

Ira Shor, Critical Teaching and Everyday Life (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1980).

13

Ronald Gross, The Independent Scholar’s Handbook (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1993).

14

On education and social movements, see Colin Ball and Mog Ball, Education for a Change: Community Action and the School (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973); Tom Lovett, Chris Clarke and Avila Kilmurray, Adult Education and Community Action: Adult Education and Popular Social Movements (London: Croom Helm, 1983); Michael Newman, Defining the Enemy: Adult Education in Social Action (Sydney: Stewart Victor, 1994).

Footnotes to chapter 8

1

Arthur Kroker, “Television and the triumph of culture: three theses,” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1985, pp. 37-47, at p. 37.

2

Michael Schudson, Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion (New York: Basic Books, 1984), p. 181.

3

A good critique is Barbara Epstein, “Why poststructuralism is a dead end for progressive thought,” Socialist Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1995, pp. 83-119.