| Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education - Second edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Steinberg, Shirley R. (Other), Giroux, Henry A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 143313067X ISBN-13: 9781433130670 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $36.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Education | Secondary |
| Dewey: 371.010 |
| LCCN: 2015005814 |
| Series: Counterpoints |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.70 lbs) 193 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |