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Losing heart : the moral and spiritual miseducation of America's children / H. Svi Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, H. Svi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Social aspects--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the 'hidden curriculum.' This book offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values, and self-oriented culture and a different vision for what our schools should be about.
- Contents:
- Education or schooling?
- Crisis of meaning
- Human nature, human possibility
- In search of community
- Banality of evil
- For you were strangers in Egpyt
- Educating for peace
- Tikkun olam.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-59886-X
- 1-283-54624-8
- 1-282-37582-2
- 1-135-59887-8
- 9786612375828
- 9786613858696
- 1-4106-1742-4
- 9781410617422
- OCLC:
- 476019638
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