Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education
- ISBN-10
- 143313067X
- ISBN-13
- 9781433130670
- Category
- Privatization in education
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Counterpoints
- Author
- Henry A. Giroux
Description
Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values 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.
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Other editions
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- 2012
- - pages
- Paperback
- Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
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