Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface 1. Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform 2. Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual 3. Mass Culture and Critical Pedagogy 4. The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative 5. Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling 6. Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse 7. Curriculum Theory and the Language of Possibility 8. Neo-Conservative Ideology and the Crisis in Higher Education 9. Is Computer Technology the Answer? The Crisis in the Classroom and Educational Reform 10. Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy 11. Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education
