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Book SynopsisUpdated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Henry A. Giroux: Introduction: Reversing the Authoritarian Assault on Public Education – In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis – When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers, and the Politics of Humiliation – Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope: Beyond Bailouts and the Fetish of the Measurement Trap – Chartering Disaster: Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliver an Education That Matters – Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform – Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner, and the Politics of Corporate "Leadership" –Public Intellectuals, the Politics of Clarity, and the Crisis of Language – Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Bearing Witness – Henry A. Giroux interviewed by Chronis Polych roniou: Predatory Capitalism and the Attack on Higher Education – C. J. Polych roniou: The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux – Tyler Pollard Interviews Henry A. Giroux: Intellectuals in the Age of Neoliberal Terror – Heather McLean Interview with Henry A. Giroux – Seth Kershner: Henry Giroux on the Militarization of Public Pedagogy – Tyler J. Pollard: Hardened Cultures and the War on Youth: A Conversation with Henry A. Giroux – Camilla Croso: Current "Reforms" Attempt to Drive Young People Out of Democracy: Interview with Henry A. Giroux – Index.
