%0 Book
%A Henry A. Giroux
%D 2023
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781636674483
%T Education and the Crisis of Public Values
%B Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education – Second edition
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1340163
%X 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.
%G English