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1. Education and Hope in Troubled Times

   Visions of Change for Our Children's World

   Edited by H. Svi Shapiro

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   "Progressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed." Richard Quantz, Miami University "The editor argues that in a material world, depicted by consumerism,...

   Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge
2. Losing Heart

   The Moral and Spiritual Miseducation of America's Children

   By H. Svi Shapiro

   In this book Svi Shapiro explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the 'hidden curriculum.' He offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values that contribute to our competitive, socially...

   Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge
3. Critical Social Issues in American Education

   Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World, 3rd Edition

   Edited by H. Svi Shapiro, David E. Purpel

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...

   Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge