Education Under Siege - The Conservative, Liberal and Radical Debate Over Schooling

Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries.

List of contents

Preface 1. Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform 2. Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual 3. Mass Culture and Critical Pedagogy 4. The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative 5. Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling 6. Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse 7. Curriculum Theory and the Language of Possibility 8. Neo-Conservative Ideology and the Crisis in Higher Education 9. Is Computer Technology the Answer? The Crisis in the Classroom and Educational Reform 10. Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy 11. Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education

About the author

Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A. Giroux

Summary

Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries.

Additional text

`Aronowitz & Giroux argue that criticism should be matched by a `discourse of possibilities'. Their book admirably exemplefies this approach. They develop a critique defying orodoxy and they offer school reforms which incorporate, rather than dismiss, existing professional practice...a powerful contribution to the emancipation of eductional theory and schooling.' - British Educational Research Journal

Product details

• Authors: Aronowitz, Professor Stanley Aronowitz, Stanley Aronowitz, Stanley Giroux Aronowitz, Aronowitz Stanley, Henry A Giroux, Henry A. Giroux, Giroux Henry A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2017
• EAN: 9781138162150
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16215-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational strategies and policy