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Education under siege : the conservative, liberal, and radical debate over schooling / Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aronowitz, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Education, Humanistic--United States.
- Education, Humanistic.
- Academic freedom--United States.
- Academic freedom.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [South Hadley] MA : Bergin & Garvey, 1985.
- Summary:
- 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:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-29732-6
- 1-135-78500-7
- 0-203-22203-2
- 1-280-10486-4
- 1-135-78499-X
- 9786610104864
- 9780203222034
- OCLC:
- 299572726
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