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America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth : Reform Beyond Electoral Politics.

America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giroux, Henry A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Challenging Casino Capitalism and Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Disposability; 1. Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: The Education Deficit and the New Authoritarianism; 2. The Scorched Earth Politics of America's Four Fundamentalisms; 3. Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Hardening of Everyday Life; 4. Hoodie Politics: Trayvon Martin and Racist Violence in Post-Racial America; 5. The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth; 6. Religious Fundamentalism, the Attack on Public Schools, and the Crisis of Reason.
  • 7. Gated Intellectuals and Fortress America: Toward a Borderless Pedagogy in the Occupy Movement8. The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope; 9. Neoliberalism's War against Teachers in Dark Times: Rethinking the Sandy Hook Elementary School Killings; 10. Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Reclaiming the Radical Imagination; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.