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.
Charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology.
"This classic work represents [the author's] best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth. This ... work opens by discussing critical pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of culture, politics, and society. [The author] analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism and examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education"--
Lays bare the ideological and political character of the positivist rationality that has been the primary theoretical underpinning of educational research in the United States. The author is the co-editor of Curriculum and Instruction: Alternatives in Education and The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education.