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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783616303321

Autore

Aronowitz Stanley

Titolo

Education under siege : the conservative, liberal and radical debate over schooling / / Stanley Aronowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Taylor and Francis, , 1987

ISBN

0-203-29732-6

1-135-78500-7

0-203-22203-2

1-280-10486-4

1-135-78499-X

9786610104864

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xi, 233 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GirouxHenry A

Disciplina

370.973

370/.973 20

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Education - United States - Philosophy

Education and state - United States

Public schools - United States

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 Philosophy; Schooling 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.