Reclaiming Education: Moving Beyond the Culture of Reform

ISBN-13: 9781137389152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 172 str.

Ron Scapp

Recenzje

Praise to come.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The Culture of Reform

Chapter 2: Getting Down to Business

Chapter 3: The Product: Education

Chapter 4: More than Competition, More than Information

Chapter 5: Becoming Knowledgeable and the Search for Wisdom

Chapter 6: Politics and Education

Chapter 7: Education as the Practice of Freedom

 

Appendix: They Skool: The Anti-Urban Bias in Urban Education

O autorze

Ron Scapp is Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA, where he is also Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education. He is author and editor of numerous books on education, politics and culture. He is Fellow at the National Education Policy Center and former President of the National Association for Ethnic Studies.

Blurb

This book is an appeal to those directly and indirectly involved in education reform to reconsider the very nature of education as a process of transformation and not, as the neoliberal corporate model insists upon, as a “product.” By using Paulo Freire’s fundamental principle of understanding “education as the  practice of freedom,” and expanding upon it with bell hooks’ own spiritual understanding of that principle, this book offers readers the opportunity to rethink what education is, and what it is not.  Utilizing the work of diverse thinkers and critics, the book lays out a criticism of neoliberalism’s profound influence on education reform and our culture generally. It reaffirms the political and ethical import of education for individuals and for our nation as a whole.