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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463043503321

Autore

Apple Michael W.

Titolo

Can education change society? / / Michael W. Apple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-08355-5

1-283-84209-2

1-136-18584-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

306.430973

Soggetti

Education - Sociological aspects

Educational sociology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Can Education Change Society?; 2 Paulo Freire and the Tasks of the Critical Scholar/Activist in Education; 3 George Counts and the Politics of Radical Change; 4 Du Bois, Woodson, and the Politics of Transformation; 5 Keeping Transformations Alive: Learning From the ""South""; 6 Wal-Marting America: Social Change and Educational Action; 7 Critical Education, Speaking the Truth, and Acting Back; 8 Answering the Question: Education and Social Transformation; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now. The question was perhaps put most succinctly by the radical educator George Counts in 1932 when he asked ""Dare the School Build a New Social Order?"", challenging entire generations of educators to participate in, actually to lead, the reconstruction of society. Over 70 years later, celebr