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Education and the Crisis of Public Values - Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education (Hardcover, New edition)
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Education and the Crisis of Public Values - Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Counterpoints, 400
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This book was awarded a CHOICE outstanding Academic Title and has
received the Annual O. L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award from
the AATC (American Association for Teaching and Curriculum) and the
AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice
Award 2012. Education and the Crisis of Public Values 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 book 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.
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