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Critical social issues in American education : democracy and meaning in a globalizing world
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This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises tha...
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. Readers are exposed to the thinking of some of the best and most insightful social and educational commentators. Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World, Third Edition, is intended to
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- Creator
- edited by H. Svi Shapiro and David E. Purpel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 3rd ed
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (518 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1135627428, 1138453048, 1135627436, 080584452X, 9786612321658, 9780805844528, 128232165X, 1410611051
- OCLC
- ocn475940816, ocn936902326, ocn900577393, ocm54775117
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Contents; Preface; Introductions; 1 For Richer; 2 Funding Accountability: States, Courts, and Public Responsibility; 3 Democracy's High School? Social Change and American Secondary Education in the Post-Conant Era; 4 Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of Reform; 5 Illusions of Progress: Business as Usual; 6 Higher Education as a Public Good; 7 Profits Without People; 8 Kids for Sale: Corporate Culture and the Challenge of Public Schooling; 9 The Littleton Tragedy; 10 Commercial Culture and the Assault on Children's Character
- 11 Goals 2000: The Triumph of Vulgarity and the Legitimation of Social Injustice12 Becoming Educated: A Journey of Alienation or Integration?; 13 English-Only Triumphs, but the Costs Are High; 14 What About the Boys?; 15 Race and the Achievement Gap; 16 What Matthew Shepard Would Tell Us: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education; 17 A Parent's Dilemma: Public vs. Jewish Education; 18 From Local Control to Government and Corporate Takeover of School Curriculum: The No Child Left Behind Act and the Reading First Program; 19 Public School Reform: The Mismeasure of Education
- 20 Care and Moral Education21 Education and Spirituality; 22 The Spiritual Transformation of Education; 23 Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality; 24 Threats and Temps; 25 Education and the Dilemmas of Modernism: Towards an Ecozoic Vision; 26 Identity in the Globalizing World; 27 The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization; 28 Lessons of September 11: What Should Schools Teach?; Author Index; Subject Index