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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Giroux, Henry A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Youth > Social conditions.
Public schools.
Privatization in education.
Education > Aims and objectives.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
Jeunesse > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Privatisation en education > États-Unis.
Écoles publiques > États-Unis.
Youth > United States > Social conditions.
Education > Aims and objectives > United States.
Privatization in education > United States.
Public schools > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as ""four fundamentalisms"": market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly desi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781583673478

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