Education Now: How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future - Hardcover

Theobald, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594516235 ISBN 13: 9781594516238

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Education Now is a clear and persuasive account of the way in which popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories about the human condition formed the basis for America's choices in the realms of politics, economics, and education. Theobald chronicles the fate of alternative, less popular ideas about the human condition-ideas that would have led to vastly different political, economic, and educational landscapes than those we experience today. This book exposes the flaws among prevalent theories and the strength of those alternatives that were dismissed or ignored. In so doing, Theobald points the way toward substantive changes across three dimensions ubiquitous to human life: politics, economics, and education.

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About the Author

Paul Theobald holds the Woods-Beals Chair in Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College. He has published widely in the area of community-based and place-based education and is author of Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Community.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594516235
• ISBN 13: 9781594516238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220