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Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• 1 Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform(p. 1)
• Notes(p. 21)
• 2 Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual(p. 23)
• 3 Mass Culture and Critical Pedagogy(p. 47)
• 4 The Literacy Crisis: a Critique and Alternative(p. 57)
• 5 Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling(p. 69)
• 6 Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse(p. 115)
• 7 Curriculum Theory and the Language of Possibility(p. 139)
• 8 Neo-Conservative Ideology and the Crisis in Higher Education(p. 163)
• 9 Is Computer Technology the Answer? the Crisis in the Classroom and Educational Reform(p. 185)
• 10 Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy(p. 199)
• 11 Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education(p. 209)
• Notes(p. 219)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 221)
• Index(p. 227)
• About the Authors(p. 235)

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CHOICE Review

Giroux and Aronowitz have written a very important book, whose strength lies in its ambition, optimism, and incurable sanity. After almost ten years of radical educational analysis and critique, the publication of this book clearly proves that this very important intellectual movement is maturing. One of the main strengths of this book is what the authors call turning the language of critique into the language of possibility. Critical theory as it has informed educational analysis has, up to this point, left radical educators, really the entire educational reform movement, with a sense of frustration and lack of agency. This book synthesizes and operationalizes some of the best insights and thinking of radical educational analyses. Additionally, the text offers some of the clearest analyses of neoconservative educational rhetoric and reform to date. The growing partnership between the corporate sector and schooling makes this a very timely and cogent work. The text is well documented, argued, and written. The ideas it contains are honest, forthright, and brave. This text would surely round out any collection on educational reform or the current debate about the state of American public schooling. Recommended, without reservation, for academic library acquisition.-M.J. Carbone, Muhlenberg College

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Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is founder of the Center for Worker Education at the City College of New York. He lives in New York City.

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