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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
DAVID E. PURPEL is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of
The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education (Bergin & Garvey, 1989).
SVI SHAPIRO is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and the author of
Between Capitalism and Democracy: Education and the Crisis of the Welfare State (Bergin & Garvey, 1990).
