Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and
revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This
is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in
a democratic society. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes
what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms-and how we
move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education.
Critical skills of citizenship are insufficiently developed in
schools, according to Zinn. Textbooks and curricula must be changed
to transcend the recitation of received wisdom too common today in
schools. In these respects, recent Bush Administration and
educational policies of most previous US presidents have been on
the wrong track in meeting educational needs. This book seeks to
redefine national goals at a time when public debates over
education have never been more polarised--nor higher in public
visibility and contentious debate. Zinn's essays on education-many
never before published--are framed in this book by a dialogue
between Zinn and Donaldo Macedo, a distinguished critic of literacy
and schooling, whose books with Paulo Freire, Noam Chomsky and
other authors have received international acclaim.
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