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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Challenging casino capitalism and authoritarian politics in the age of disposability
  • Beyond the politics of the big lie: the education deficit and the new authoritarianism
  • The scorched earth politics of America's four fundamentalisms
  • Violence, USA: the warfare state and the hardening of everyday life
  • Hoodie politics: Trayvon Martin and racist violence in post-racial America
  • The "suicidal state" and the war on youth
  • Religious fundamentalism, the attack on public schools, and the crisis of reason
  • Gated intellectuals and Fortress America: toward a borderless pedagogy in the Occupy Movement
  • The Occupy Movement and the politics of educated hope
  • Neoliberalism's war against teachers in dark times: rethinking the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings
  • Dangerous pedagogy in the age of casino capitalism: reclaiming the radical imagination.

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