America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform Beyond Electoral Politics
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158367344X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Giroux is a social critic and educator. . He currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University, Ontario. Henry A
Giroux knows personally this situation; this book is his intellectual autobiography. Unable to get decent educations, chained to dead-end jobs, our young people are the targets of state-sponsored violence. We can only hope it will become a manifesto, taken up by an informed and energized citizenry—ready to act.”-Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean of the School of the Arts, Columbia University“This is classic Giroux in the sense that it contains all the passion, empathy, and righteous anger that we have come to associate with Henry Giroux. Listen to him and act.”-John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California . Stop stealing the future from our young people, especially in the working class. “Giroux has written a compelling critical discourse analyzing the pr
Malvin said On the corporatization of American education and what to do about it. "America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth" by Henry Giroux is a searing critique of the corporatization of American education and what to do about it. Dr. Giroux is a highly influential scholar who has studied, written and taught on the subjects of education and culture for many decades. This pass. Doak W. said A must read!. Henry Giroux assists in painting a picture of American Education that goes well beyond whatyou have heard before. He reveals the causes of our school problems and provides solutionsthat are worth considering. I highly recommend this book.. Some Excellent Points In Need Of Fleshing Out Steve Siegelbaum Giroux states his case that what passes for education and education policy in the U.S. amounts to a devastating attack upon our young people. But, at times, the book has the feel of a rush job. This could be as much the fault of the editor as Giroux's. For one thing, the strong criticisms are not fully ex
Young people who don’t conform to cultural and economic discipline are left to navigate the neoliberal landscape on their own; if they are black or brown, they are likely to become ensnared by a harsh penal system. Giroux sets his sights on the war on youth and takes it apart, examining how a lack of access to quality education, unemployment, the repression of dissent, a culture of violence, and the discipline of the market work together to shape the dismal experiences of so many young people. And those are the lucky ones. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as “four fundamentalisms”: market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly designed to churn out drone-like future employees, imbued with authoritarian values, inured to violence, and destined to serve the market. America’s latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. He urges critical educators to unite with students and workers in rebellion to form a new pedagogy, and to build a new, democratic societ