Education and hope in troubled times visions of change for our children's world /

• Other Authors: Shapiro, H. Svi.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education.
• Subjects: Critical pedagogy.; Educational sociology.; Education > Social aspects > United States.; EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.; Electronic books.
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Bringing together a group of the best and most creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of original essays by leading social and educational commentators in North America attempts to articulate a new vision for education, especially publ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: education and hope in troubled times / H. Svi Shapiro
• Education and schooling in the 21st century: the role of the profession / David E. Purpel
• Is there a place for education in social transformation? / Michael W. Apple
• What is to be done?: toward a rationale for social movement building / Jean Anyon
• Mechanics of unfairness: how we undercut poor children's educational opportunity / Sue Books
• The moral and spiritual poverty of educational "leadership"
• and a hope for the future / Ulrich C. Reitzug and Deborah L. West
• Fear versus possibility: why we need a new DEEL for our children's future / Steven Jay Gross and Joan Poliner Shapiro
• Capitalism's continuing attempts to dominate civil society, culture and schools: what should be done? / Richard A. Brosio
• Education after the empire / Ron Miller
• Education for a partnership world: building cultures of peace / Riane Eisler
• Critical thinking in religious education / Nel Noddings
• The cultivation of children's bodies toward intricate thinking and sensitive behavior / Don Hanlon Johnson
• To touch and be touched: the missing discourse of bodies in education / Mara Sapon-Shevin
• Worlds of change: a vision for global aesthetics / Sherry B. Shapiro
• Teaching like weasels / Hephzibah Roskelly
• Transforming status-quo stories: shifting from "me" to "we" consciousness / AnaLouise Keating
• Disposable futures: dirty democracy and the politics of disposability / Henry A. Giroux
• Unplaguing the stomach: curing the University of California admissions policy with an ethic of communal justice and care / Jenifer Crawford, Nana Gyamfi and Peter McLaren
• No child left thinking: democracy at risk in American schools and what we need to do about it / Joel Westheimer.