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Education and the Crisis of Public Values

Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

. examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade’s growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system. The book encourages educators to become public intellectuals, willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning that can nurture the ability to defend public and higher education as a general good – one crucial to sustaining a critical citizenry and a democratic society.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-1217-1 / 978-1433112171 / 9781433112171

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2011

Seiten: 129

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Henry A. Giroux

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