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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815374003321

Autore

Aronowitz Stanley

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[South Hadley] MA, : Bergin & Garvey, 1985

ISBN

0-203-29732-6

1-135-78500-7

0-203-22203-2

1-280-10486-4

1-135-78499-X

9786610104864

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xi, 233 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GirouxHenry A

Disciplina

370.973

370/.973 20

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Educational equalization - United States

Education, Humanistic - United States

Academic freedom - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

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.