America's education deficit and the war on youth [[electronic resource] /] / by Henry A. Giroux
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Giroux Henry A
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| Titolo: |
America's education deficit and the war on youth [[electronic resource] /] / by Henry A. Giroux
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Monthly Review Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 379.73 |
| Soggetto topico: | Youth - Social conditions |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Challenging Casino Capitalism and Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Disposability; 1. Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: The Education Deficit and the New Authoritarianism; 2. The Scorched Earth Politics of America's Four Fundamentalisms; 3. Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Hardening of Everyday Life; 4. Hoodie Politics: Trayvon Martin and Racist Violence in Post-Racial America; 5. The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth; 6. Religious Fundamentalism, the Attack on Public Schools, and the Crisis of Reason |
| 7. Gated Intellectuals and Fortress America: Toward a Borderless Pedagogy in the Occupy Movement8. The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope; 9. Neoliberalism's War against Teachers in Dark Times: Rethinking the Sandy Hook Elementary School Killings; 10. Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Reclaiming the Radical Imagination; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as ""four fundamentalisms"": market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly desi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | America's education deficit and the war on youth |
| ISBN: | 1-58367-347-4 |
| 1-58367-346-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910480174703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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