Against Schooling - Toward an Education That Matters

Informationen zum Autor Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He is the author of many articles in The Nation, Village Voice, and other magazines. His most recent books include Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (Paradigm 2006). Klappentext Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in the US. Zusammenfassung Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in the US. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part I: Education and Social Class, 1. How Class Works in education: A Memoir, 2. Against Schooling: education and Social Class, 3. The World turned Upside Down—Again, Part II: Higher Education or Higher Training?, 4. Higher Education as a Public Good, 5. Subaltern in Paradise, 6. Academic Unionism and the Future of Higher Education, 7. Should Academic Unions Get involved in Governance?, 8. The Decline of Labor Education, Part III: Toward Educational Renewal, 9. Gramsci and Education, 10. Paulo Freire’s Radical Democratic Humanism, References, Index

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Aronowitz, Aronowitz Stanley
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2008
• EAN: 9781594515026
• ISBN: 978-1-59451-502-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Radical Imagination; The Radical Imagination
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education