Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and Human Capital Learning
Subtitle: Reclaiming Education for Democratic Citizenship
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781402034213
Subjects: Philosophy of education; Philosophy; Education / Teaching; Movements - General; Administration - General; Curricula; General; Education / Curricula
Description: Throughout the world, neoliberalism functions to decouple learning from the most important elements of civic education, transforming education into training and students into consumers. Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Human Capital Learning is an enormously important book that reveals in painstaking detail how neoliberal ideology destroys critical education. But it does much more. It also provides the insights and tools for educators to both overcome the market-based attack on critical education and address schooling as a democratic public sphere and the classroom as a laboratory for the nurturing of critical agency and social responsibility. This dynamic book should stir a public outcry among concerned citizens and educators through out the globe. Henry A.Giroux is the Global TV Network Chair at McMaster University and the author of the more recent America on the Edge and Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism.