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Beyond Liberation and Excellence: Reconstructing the Public Discourse on Education (Critical Studies in Education and Culture) - Hardcover

H. Svi Shapiro; David Purpel

 
9780897894166: Beyond Liberation and Excellence: Reconstructing the Public Discourse on Education (Critical Studies in Education and Culture)

Synopsis

The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed. They examine the kinds of conditions, concerns, and subjectivities that must be attended to in order to develop an effective and resonant new language that can re-focus the purposes of education in this society. The authors' agree that educational discourse must be transformed into a visible, morally and politically vital, public commentary and debate - one that can begin to address the social, cultural, and spiritual crises that now confront humanity.

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About the Author

SVI SHAPIRO teaches the social foundations of education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published widely on questions of education, ideology, and the state in capitalist society. With David Purpel he edited Schools and Meaning: Essays on the Moral Nature of Schooling (1985).

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