Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of
Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade’s growing social disinvestment in youth.
The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system.
The book encourages educators to become public intellectuals, willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning that can nurture the ability to defend public and higher education as a general good – one crucial to sustaining a critical citizenry and a democratic society.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
193 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2015-04-23 |
| ISBN |
9781433130670 |
