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Book SynopsisProgressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed.
Richard Quantz, Miami University
The editor argues that in a material world, depicted by consumerism, spiritual nihilism and conspicuous consumption, there is need to offer a new vision and direction in education that would promote a more harmonious, holistic values-oriented schooling that transforms persons into moral beings, who care for others. In terms of innovative ideas and approaches to pedagogy and theorizing about schooling, this volume is at the top of pedagogical discourses and thinking.
Joseph Zajda, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus)
Education and Hope in Troubled Times brings together a group of the best and most creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public educ
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"Progressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed."
--Richard Quantz, Miami University
"The editor argues that in a material world, depicted by consumerism, spiritual nihilism and conspicuous consumption, there is need to offer a new vision and direction in education that would promote a more harmonious, holistic values-oriented schooling that transforms persons into moral beings, who care for others…. In terms of innovative ideas and approaches to pedagogy and theorizing about schooling, this volume is at the top of pedagogical discourses and thinking."
--Joseph Zajda, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus)
Table of ContentsPreface
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
