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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450357103321

Autore

Aronowitz Stanley

Titolo

Education Under Siege [[electronic resource] ] : The Conservative, Liberal and Radical Debate over Schooling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1987

ISBN

9786610104864

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GirouxHenry A

Disciplina

370.973

370/.973 20

Soggetti

Education Aims and objectives United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform; Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual; Mass Culture and Critical Pedagogy; The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative; Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling; Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse; Curriculum Theory and the Language of Possibility; Neo-Conservative Ideology and the Crisis in Higher Education; Is Computer Technology the Answer? The Crisis in the Classroom and Educational Reform

Education and the Crisis in Public PhilosophySchooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.