Beyond Liberation and Excellence - Reconstructing the Public Discourse on Education

The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed. They examine the kinds of conditions, concerns, and subjectivities that must be attended to in order to develop an effective and resonant new language that can re-focus the purposes of education in this society. The authors' agree that educational discourse must be transformed into a visible, morally and politically vital, public commentary and debate - one that can begin to address the social, cultural, and spiritual crises that now confront humanity.

List of contents

Series Foreword: Educational Reform with No Apologies by Henry A. Giroux
Preface
Public and Professional Discourse: Blurred Visions and Empty Dreams
Lost for Words: The Public Discourse in Education
The Profession of Education: Responsibilities, Responses, and Constraints
Beyond Critical Pedagogical Affirmation and Critique
Beyond Liberation and Excellence: A Discourse for Education as Transformation
An Agenda for Educational Reform and Cultural Transformation
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

SVI SHAPIRO teaches the social foundations of education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published widely on questions of education, ideology, and the state in capitalist society. With David Purpel he edited Schools and Meaning: Essays on the Moral Nature of Schooling (1985).

Product details

• Authors: David Purpel, David E. Purpel, H. Svi Shapiro, Svi Shapiro, Shapiro H. Svi
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.1995
• EAN: 9780897894173
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-417-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 397 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Current Events and Issues: Education