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Education Still Under Siege

Author : Stanley Aronowitz,Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015026976012

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Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life. This revised edition of the 1985 best-seller speaks eloquently to the need to attend to ever-present inequalities of education in the light of new political correctness, technology, and curricula.

Education under siege

Author : Peter Mortimore
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447311317

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In Education under Siege, Peter Mortimore considers the UK education system as it is and as it might be. Concluding that the United Kingdom has some of the best teachers in the world but one of the most muddled systems, Mortimore proposes radical changes to help all British schools become good schools. He argues that the government should outlaw selection practices, integrate private schools into the state system, and establish processes to ensure that each school has effective teachers and a fair balance of students who learn easily and those who do not. In a concluding call to action, he asks readers who share his concerns to demand that politicians alter the course of education policy.

Education Under Siege

Author : Stanley Aronowitz,Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135785000

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Education Under Siege by Stanley Aronowitz,Henry A. Giroux Pdf

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Public Education Under Siege

Author : Michael B. Katz,Mike Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0812223209

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Public Education Under Siege argues for a democratic and egalitarian alternative to the test-driven, market-oriented core of current education reform. These short, jargon-free essays cover public policy, teacher unions, economic inequality, race, language diversity, parent involvement, and leadership.

Pakistan Under Siege

Author : Madiha Afzal
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815729464

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Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think? Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from a detached position—a top-down security perspective, that renders a one-dimensional picture of what is at its heart a complex, richly textured country of 200 million people. In this book, using rigorous analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews in schools and universities in Pakistan, historical narrative reporting, and her own intuitive understanding of the country, Madiha Afzal gives the full picture of Pakistan’s relationship with extremism. The author lays out Pakistanis’ own views on terrorist groups, on jihad, on religious minorities and non-Muslims, on America, and on their place in the world. The views are not radical at first glance, but are riddled with conspiracy theories. Afzal explains how the two pillars that define the Pakistani state—Islam and a paranoia about India—have led to a regressive form of Islamization in Pakistan’s narratives, laws, and curricula. These, in turn, have shaped its citizens’ attitudes. Afzal traces this outlook to Pakistan’s unique and tortured birth. She examines the rhetoric and the strategic actions of three actors in Pakistani politics—the military, the civilian governments, and the Islamist parties—and their relationships with militant groups. She shows how regressive Pakistani laws instituted in the 1980s worsened citizen attitudes and led to vigilante and mob violence. The author also explains that the educational regime has become a vital element in shaping citizens’ thinking. How many years one attends school, whether the school is public, private, or a madrassa, and what curricula is followed all affect Pakistanis’ attitudes about terrorism and the rest of the world. In the end, Afzal suggests how this beleaguered nation—one with seemingly insurmountable problems in governance and education—can change course.

Childhood Under Siege

Author : Joel Bakan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439121221

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Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online. America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning. And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments. Nelson Mandela once sagely remarked that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children." The problem today, as Joel Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult.

No University Is an Island

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780814725337

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This text offers a comprehensive account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. At once witty and devastating, it confronts these threats with frankness, then offers a prescription for higher education's renewal.

Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education

Author : Marc Spooner,James McNinch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 0889775362

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Dissident Knowledge challenges the audit-based, neoliberal culture that is threatening the foundational values of higher education institutions everywhere.

Take Back Higher Education

Author : H. Giroux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403982667

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At the beginning for the new millennium, higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, higher education increasingly is besieged by corporate, right-wing and conservative ideologies that want to decouple higher education from its legacy of educating students to be critical and autonomous citizens, imbued with democratic and public values. The greatest danger faced by higher education comes from the focus of global neo-liberalism and the return of educational apartheid. Through the power of racial backlash, the war on youth, deregulation, commercialism, and privatization, neo-liberalism wages a vicious assault on all of those public spheres and goods not controlled by the logic of market relations and profit margins. Take Back Higher Education argues that if higher education is going to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it will have to confront neo-liberalism, racism, and the shredding of the social contract.

The Problem with Rules

Author : John Churchill
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813945781

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There is a constant drumbeat of commentary claiming that STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, and math—are far more valuable in today’s economy than traditional liberal arts courses such as philosophy or history. Many even claim that the liberal arts are "under siege" by neoliberal politicians and cost-conscious university administrators. In a forceful response, The Problem with Rules establishes the essential value of the liberal arts as the pedagogical pathway to critical thinking and moral character and argues for more not less emphasis in higher education. John Churchill asserts that the liberal arts are more than decorative frills. Drawing from the philosophy of Wittgenstein to craft a cogent, inspired argument, Churchill insists on the liberal arts’ indispensable role, providing in this book a clarion call to politicians, university administrators, and all Americans to recognize and actively support and nurture the liberal arts.

The Breakaways

Author : Cathy G. Johnson
Publisher : First Second
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250249388

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Quiet, sensitive Faith starts middle school already worrying about how she will fit in. To her surprise, Amanda, a popular eighth grader, convinces her to join the school soccer team, the Bloodhounds. Having never played soccer in her life, Faith ends up on the C team, a ragtag group that’s way better at drama than at teamwork. Although they are awful at soccer, Faith and her teammates soon form a bond both on and off the soccer field that challenges their notions of loyalty, identity, friendship, and unity. The Breakaways from Cathy G. Johnson is a raw, and beautifully honest graphic novel that looks into the lives of a diverse and defiantly independent group of kids learning to make room for themselves in the world.

Local Democracy Under Siege

Author : Dorothy Holland,Catherine Lutz,Lesley Bartlett,Marla Frederick-McGlathery
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814737460

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Local Democracy Under Siege by Dorothy Holland,Catherine Lutz,Lesley Bartlett,Marla Frederick-McGlathery Pdf

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a community not just the elite think about and experience “politics” in ways that include much more than merely voting. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made some new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult. Local Democracy Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people. Complete List of Authors (pictured) From Left to Right, bottom row: Enrique Murillo, Jr., Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Marla Frederick-McGlathery. Top row: Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, and Don Nonini.

The Self Under Siege

Author : Robert Firestone,Lisa A. Firestone,Joyce Catlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415520331

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The Self Under Siege by Robert Firestone,Lisa A. Firestone,Joyce Catlett Pdf

Noted clinical psychologist Robert Firestone and his co-authors explore the struggle that all of us face in striving to retain a sense of ourselves as unique individuals.

America on the Edge

Author : H. Giroux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403984364

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Henry Giroux's latest work is a compelling collection of new and classic essays. Key topics such as education and democracy, terrorism and security, and media and youth culture are critiqued in Giroux's signature style. This is a fascinating collection for Giroux fans and educators alike.

Science under Siege

Author : Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Rudi Laermans
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030696498

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Science under Siege by Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Rudi Laermans Pdf

Identifying scientism as religion’s secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universally binding truth claims, be they religiously or scientifically informed. Approaching the issue from a cultural-sociological perspective and building on theories from the sociology of religion, the volume unearths the cultural mechanisms that account for the headwind faced by contemporary science. The empirical contributions highlight how the field of academic science has lost much of its former authority vis-à-vis competing social realms; how political and religious worldviews define particular research findings as favorites while dismissing others; and how much of today’s distrust of science is directed against scientific institutions and academic scientists rather than against science per se.