Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical Debate over Schooling

`Aronowitz & Giroux argue that criticism should be matched by a `discourse of possibilities'. Their book admirably exemplefies this approach. They develop a critique defying orodoxy and they offer school reforms which incorporate, rather than dismiss, existing professional practice...a powerful contribution to the emancipation of eductional theory and schooling.' - British Educational Research Journal

Preface 1. Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform 2. Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual 3. Mass Culture and Critical Pedagogy 4. The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative 5. Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling 6. Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse 7. Curriculum Theory and the Language of Possibility 8. Neo-Conservative Ideology and the Crisis in Higher Education 9. Is Computer Technology the Answer? The Crisis in the Classroom and Educational Reform 10. Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy 11. Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education

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.