Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education - Paperbackby Eric Detweiler (Author) In recent decades, public higher education has faced perpetual crises. As states slash investment in postsecondary education and for profit entities seek to supplant public colleges and universities, these public institutions have tried to compete by maximizing efficiency, namely, by downplaying and outsourcing the labor of teachers. Responsible Pedagogy makes a fresh case for the importance and value of public higher