216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where school districts have imposed testing, teachers must teach to test, and both teacher and student... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Education and Social Class* How Class Works in Education: A Memoir* Against Schooling: Education and Social Class* The World Turned Upside Down--AgainPart II: Higher Education or Higher Training?* Higher Education as a Public Good* Subaltern in Paradise* Academic Unionism and the Future of Higher Education* Should Academic Unions Get Involved in Governance?* The Decline of Labor EducationPart III: Toward Educational Renewal* Gramsci and Education* Paulo Freire's Radical Democratic HumanismReferences Index
Biography
Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He is the author of many articles in The Nation, Village Voice, and other magazines. His most recent books include Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (Paradigm 2006).
“Stanley Aronowitz is a national treasure. Against Schooling is vintage Aronowitz. The book makes a brilliant and impassioned argument for the necessity of creating new knowledges and social and cultural practices that do not repeat the privileging hierarchies of previous generations, but enable individuals to become global as well as national citizens who refuse to accept the current regime of educational degradation. Aronowitz's call for a protagonistic effort to bring teachers in higher education together with elementary and secondary school faculty in a common fight is one that we must take seriously if we want to save not only our schools but the very fabric of our social universe.”
—Peter McLaren, UCLA
“This is an important book—radical in its analysis and proposed ways forward. It comes at an important time, when there is growing disillusion with the narrow understanding of education as it is embodied in schools shaped by the ‘performance management’ and centralization instituted by dominant governments. We need to be reminded, as Aronowitz reminds us, of a different vision, one that is rooted in a different understanding of human development and social improvement.”
—Richard Pring, Oxford University, Key Words
