America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform Beyond Electoral Politics
America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as four fundamentalisms”: market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly designed to churn out drone-like future employees, imbued…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58367-344-7
- EAN: 9781583673447
- Produktnummer: 14638332
- Verlag: Monthly Review Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.0 cm 281 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 281
Über den Autor
Henry A. Giroux is a social critic and educator. He currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University, Ontario.
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