Equality, Education, and Human Rights in the United States: Issues of Gender, Race, Sexuality, Disability, and Social Class

ISBN-13: 9780367714000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Mike Cole

Opis

This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disability and social class. This book is an essential resource across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in education, social policy and equality.

Spis treści

Foreword: Democracy Under Siege and the Rise of the Unthinkable;  Introduction: Equality and Human Rights in the United States today 1. Feminism and Socialism: Looking Back, Looking Ahead;  2. Gender and Education: The Revolutionary ‘Force and Reason’ of Women;  3. U. S. History Breathes and Bleeds Racism;   4. Racism and Education: Failure to Achieve Democratic Aims Inclusively in Public Schooling;  5. The Making of Sexuality in the United States: Normativity, Heteropatriarchy, and Resisting the ‘Euphoria’ of Androcentric Logic;  6. Toward a Marxian Understanding of Sex Education Policy and Curriculum in the United States;  7. Disability Matters: A Materialist History of Disability Under U.S. Settler-Capitalism;  8. Disabling Learning Conditions: Ability-Segregated Education and the Creation of Disability;  9. Marx and the Marxist alternative to neoliberal capitalism: the case for a fully inclusive ecosocialism for today;  10. The Hidden Cost of Class Disavowal and the Case for a New Education System: Social Class and Education in the U.S.

O autorze

Mike Cole is a writer and Emeritus Research Professor in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. His latest books are Education, Equality, and Human Rights: Issues of Gender, ‘Race’, Sexuality, Disability and Social Class, Fifth Edition; and Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson (2023).