Critical Social Issues in American Education (eBook, ePUB)

Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Redaktion: Shapiro, H. Svi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Textbook anthology for social foundations and curriculum theory courses situates issues of education in the critical context of the major political, economic, cultural, and environmental crisis of the U.S. and the global community; provides a focus and conceptual framework for thinking about these issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135627423
• Artikelnr.: 42742260

Autorenporträt

Shapiro, H. Svi; Purpel, David E.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Social Justice and Democracy: Unmet Promises. P. Krugman
For Richer. S. Books
Funding Accountability: States
Courts
and Public Responsibility. J.L. Rury
Democracy's High School? Social Change and American Secondary Education in the Post-Conant Era. L.M. McNeil
Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of Reform. C.E. Sleeter
C. Grant
Illusions of Progress: Business as Usual. S. Aronowitz
Higher Education as a Public Good. Part II: Schools for Sale: Consumerism
Corporate Culture
and Public Education. C.E. Boutwell
Profits Without People. H.A. Giroux
Kids for Sale: Corporate Culture and the Challenge of Public Schooling. H.S. Shapiro
The Littleton Tragedy. A. Molnar
Commercial Culture and the Assault on Children's Character. D.E. Purpel
Goals 2000: The Triumph of Vulgarity and the Legitimation of Social Injustice. Part III: Marginality and Difference: The Fractured Community. J.R. Martin
Becoming Educated: A Journey of Alienation or Integration? A. Portes
English-Only Triumphs
but the Costs Are High. M. Kimmel
What About the Boys? H. Berlak
Race and the Achievement Gap. D. Risner
What Matthew Shepard Would Tell Us: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education. H.S. Shapiro
A Parent's Dilemma: Public vs. Jewish Education. Part IV: Critique and Hope: Moral and Spiritual Perspectives on Education. H. Berlak
From Local Control to Government and Corporate Takeover of School Curriculum: The No Child Left Behind Act and the Reading First Program. H.S. Shapiro
Public School Reform: The Mismeasure of Education. N. Noddings
Care and Moral Education. D. Huebner
Education and Spirituality. M. Lerner
The Spiritual Transformation of Education. D.E. Purpel
Social Justice
Curriculum
and Spirituality. Part V: Globalization and Education: Twenty-First Century Challenge. N. Klein
Threats and Temps. E. O'Sullivan
Education and the Dilemmas of Modernism: Toward an Ecozioc Vision. Z. Baumam
Identity in the Globalizing World. D. Held
The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization. H.S. Shapiro
Lessons of September 11: What Should Schools Teach?