Education and the crisis of public values
Subtitle: challenging the assault on teachers, students, & public education
By: Henry A. Giroux
Series: Counterpoints, Studies in the postmodern theory of education -- v. 400
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9781433112164; 9781433112171; 9781453901410
Subjects: Privatization in education; Public schools
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In defense of public school teachers in a time of crisis; title: When generosity hurts: Bill Gates, public school teachers, and the politics of humiliation; title: Teachers without jobs and education without hope: beyond bailouts and the fetish of the measurement trap; title: Chartering disaster: why Duncan's corporate-based schools can't deliver an education that matters; title: Dumbing down teachers: attacking colleges of education in the name of reform; title: Business culture and the death of public education: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner, and the politics of corporate "leadership"; title: Public intellectuals, the politics of clarity, and the crisis of language; title: Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of bearing witness.