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Education and the crisis of public values : challenging the assault on teachers, students, & public education / Henry A. Giroux.

Education and the crisis of public values : challenging the assault on teachers, students, & public education / Henry A. Giroux.
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ISBN 9781433112164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Location 370.973 GIR
Author Giroux, Henry A.
Title Education and the crisis of public values : challenging the assault on teachers, students, & public education / Henry A. Giroux. [Book]
Published New York : Peter Lang, c2012.
Collation xii, 129 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Counterpoints, Studies in the postmodern theory of education ; v. 400
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note In defense of public school teachers in a time of crisis -- When generosity hurts: Bill Gates, public school teachers, and the politics of humiliation -- Teachers without jobs and education without hope: beyond bailouts and the fetish of the measurement trap -- Chartering disaster: why Duncan's corporate-based schools can't deliver an education that matters -- Dumbing down teachers: attacking colleges of education in the name of reform -- Business culture and the death of public education: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner, and the politics of corporate "leadership" -- Public intellectuals, the politics of clarity, and the crisis of language -- Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of bearing witness.
Summary Note This book 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 author 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. -- Back Cover.
Subject Public schools -- United States
Privatization in education -- United States
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