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Critical social issues in American education : democracy and meaning in a globalizing world /
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum,
2005.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY: UNMET PROMISES; 1 For Richer; 2 Funding Accountability: States, Courts, and Public Responsibility; 3 Democracy's High School? Social Change and American Secondary Education in the Post-Conant Era; 4 Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of Reform; 5 Illusions of Progress: Business as Usual; 6 Higher Education as a Public Good; II SCHOOLS FOR SALE: CONSUMERISM, CORPORATE CULTURE, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION; 7 Profits Without People.
- 8 Kids for Sale: Corporate Culture and the Challenge of Public Schooling9 The Littleton Tragedy; 10 Commercial Culture and the Assault on Children's Character; 11 Goals 2000: The Triumph of Vulgarity and the Legitimation of Social Injustice; III MARGINALITY AND DIFFERENCE: THE FRACTURED COMMUNITY; 12 Becoming Educated: A Journey of Alienation or Integration?; 13 English-Only Triumphs, but the Costs Are High; 14 What About the Boys?; 15 Race and the Achievement Gap; 16 What Matthew Shepard Would Tell Us: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education; 17 A Parent's Dilemma: Public vs. Jewish Education.
- IV CRITIQUE AND HOPE: MORAL AND SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION19 Public School Reform: The Mismeasure of Education; 20 Care and Moral Education; 21 Education and Spirituality; 22 The Spiritual Transformation of Education; 23 Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality; V GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION: THE 21ST-CENTURY CHALLENGE; 24 Threats and Temps; 25 Education and the Dilemmas of Modernism: Towards an Ecozoic Vision; 26 Identity in the Globalizing World; 27 The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization.
- 28 Lessons of September 11: What Should Schools Teach?Author Index; Subject Index.