Education and the Crisis of Public Values
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Education and the Crisis of Public Values

Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education Second edition

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  1. 193 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Education and the Crisis of Public Values

Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education Second edition

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About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Reversing the Authoritarian Assault on Public Education (Henry A. Giroux)
  5. 1. In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
  6. 2. When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers, and the Politics of Humiliation
  7. 3. Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope: Beyond Bailouts and the Fetishof the Measurement Trap: Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliveran Education That Matters
  8. 4. Chartering Disaster: Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliveran Education That Matters
  9. 5. Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Educationin the Name of Reform
  10. 6. Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner, and thePolitics of Corporate “Leadership”
  11. 7. Public Intellectuals, the Politics of Clarity, and the Crisis of Language
  12. 8. Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Bearing Witness
  13. Interviews: Predatory Capitalism and the Attack on Higher Education (Henry A. Giroux Interviewed by Chronis Polychroniou)
  14. Revision 2 The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left (C. J. Polychroniou)
  15. Intellectuals in the Age of Neoliberal Terror (Tyler Pollard Interviews Henry A. Giroux)
  16. Heather McLean Interview with Henry A. Giroux
  17. Revised version Henry Giroux on the Militarization of Public Pedagogy (Seth Kershner)
  18. Hardened Cultures and the War on Youth (Tyler J. Pollard)
  19. Current “Reforms” Attempt to Drive Young People Out of Democracy (Camilla Croso)
  20. Index