Education and the Crisis of Public Values

Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education Second edition

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781453915578
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society's shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade's growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system. The book encourages educators to become public intellectuals, willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning that can nurture the ability to defend public and higher education as a general good – one crucial to sustaining a critical citizenry and a democratic society.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reversing the Authoritarian Assault on Public Education (Henry A. Giroux)
• 1. In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
• 2. When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers, and the Politics of Humiliation
• 3. Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope: Beyond Bailouts and the Fetishof the Measurement Trap: Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliveran Education That Matters
• 4. Chartering Disaster: Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliveran Education That Matters
• 5. Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Educationin the Name of Reform
• 6. Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner, and thePolitics of Corporate “Leadership”
• 7. Public Intellectuals, the Politics of Clarity, and the Crisis of Language
• 8. Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Bearing Witness
• Interviews: Predatory Capitalism and the Attack on Higher Education (Henry A. Giroux Interviewed by Chronis Polychroniou)
• Revision 2 The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left (C. J. Polychroniou)
• Intellectuals in the Age of Neoliberal Terror (Tyler Pollard Interviews Henry A. Giroux)
• Heather McLean Interview with Henry A. Giroux
• Revised version Henry Giroux on the Militarization of Public Pedagogy (Seth Kershner)
• Hardened Cultures and the War on Youth (Tyler J. Pollard)
• Current “Reforms” Attempt to Drive Young People Out of Democracy (Camilla Croso)
• Index