This book was awarded a CHOICE outstanding Academic Title and has received the Annual O. L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award from the AATC (American Association for Teaching and Curriculum) and the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-13
9781433112164
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110587002
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Regional History, Experimental Psychology
Author
Henry A. Giroux
Publication Name
Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology, Education, Teaching
Publication Year
2011
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
129 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
160mm
Volume
400
Item Weight
220g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Henry A. Giroux
Series Title
Counterpoints
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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