Education And The Crisis Of Public Values: Challenging The Assault On Teachers, Students, And Public Education ?Second Edition (Counterpoints)

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.

• • Author: Henry A. Giroux
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Apr 23, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 193 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 143313067X
• • ISBN-13: 9781433130670