Education and Hope in Troubled Times (eBook, PDF)

Visions of Change for Our Children's World
Redaktion: Shapiro, H. Svi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a group of the best and most creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a new vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135847869
• Artikelnr.: 42983588

Autorenporträt

H. Svi Shapiro is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Author or editor of a number of books on education and has also published more than 70 articles in national and international journals and writes on education matters for the national magazine, Tikkun. His professional interests include critical and liberatory pedagogies; the moral and spiritual dimensions of education; education and social policy as these relate to social justice, human rights and democracy; global social change and peace education; and qualitative forms of educational inquiry. He is a member of the advisory board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a member of the steering committee of Triangle Tikkun, has been actively engaged in interfaith efforts, and has a special interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Contributors
1. Introduction: Education and Hope in Trouble Times
H. Svi Shapiro
2. Education and Schooling in the 21st Century: The Role of the Profession
David E. Purpel
3. Is There a Place for Education in Social Transformation?
Michael W. Apple
4. What Is to be Done? Toward a Rationale for Social Movement Building
Jean Anyon
5. Mechanics of Unfairness: How We Undercut Poor Children's Educational
Opportunity
Sue Books
6. The Moral and Spiritual Poverty of Educational 'Leadership'...and a Hope
for the
Future
Ulrich C. Reitzug and Deborah L. West
7. Fear versus Possibility: Why We Need a New DEEL for Our Children's
Future
Steven Jay Gross and Joan Poliner Shapiro
8. Capitalism's Continuing Attempts to Dominate Civil Society, Culture, and
Schools: What Should Be Done?
Richard A. Brosio
9. Education After the Empire
Ron Miller
10. Education for a Partnership World: Building Cultures of Peace
Riane Eisler
11. Critical Thinking in Religious Education
Nel Noddings
12. The Cultivation of Children's Bodies Toward Intricate Thinking and
Sensitive
Behavior
Don Hanlon Johnson
13. To Touch and Be Touched: The Missing Discourse of Bodies in Education
Mara Sapon-Shevin
14. Worlds of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics
Sherry B. Shapiro
15. Teaching Like Weasels
Hephzibah Roskelly
16. Transforming Status-Quo Stories: Shifting from 'Me' to 'We'
Consciousness
AnaLouise Keating
17. Disposable Futures: Dirty Democracy and the Politics of Disposability
Henry A. Giroux
18. Unplaguing the Stomach: Curing the University of California Admission
Policy with
An Ethic of Communal Care and Justice
Jenifer Crawford, Nana Gyamfi and Peter McLaren
19. No Child Left Thinking: Democracy At-Risk in American Schools and What
We Need to Do About It
Joel Westheimer