Education Still Under Siege / Edition 2

by Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A. Giroux

Overview

Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life. This revised edition of the 1985 best-seller speaks eloquently to the need to attend to ever-present inequalities of education in the light of new political correctness, technology, and curricula.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897893114
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/1993
Series:	Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

STANLEY ARONOWITZ is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written books of which Honor America, The Politics of Identity, and Science as Power are recent titles.

HENRY A. GIROUX is the Waterbury Chair Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University. He is series editor of Critical Studies in Education and Culture and the author of numerous titles in critical pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the Melting Pot—Schooling in the Twenty-first Century
Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform
Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual
The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative
Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling
Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse
Curriculum Theory, Power, and Cultural Politics
The Universities and the Question of Political Correctness
Are We Having Fun Yet? Computers and the Future of Work and Play
Multiculturalism under Siege in the Reagan/Bush Era
Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy
Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education
Selected Bibliography
Index