1st Edition
Challenging the Notion of Crisis in Education Reclaiming Agency and Intent
By Michael Thomas Smith
Copyright 2026
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the narrative of education being in a state of perpetual crisis and the motivations behind the historical and contemporary tendency to exploit the same. Written as a call for greater media literacy, the book recognizes how and when "solutions" to the oft-acknowledged educational crises fail to address root causes, which ends up only maintaining the status quo.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: How the Crisis Narrative Does Not Look for a Solution
Chapter 2: If There Are So Many Crises in Education, Why Are We So Resistant to Change?
Chapter 3: The Trouble with Opinions (Doxa)
Chapter 4: What Drives Educational Crises?
Chapter 5: Doubt as a Foundation to Education
Chapter 6: The Crisis of Being “Right”
Chapter 7: The Trouble with Public Opinions (Endoxa)
Chapter 8: What Drives Global-Wide Low Standards in Education?
Afterword
Biography
Michael Thomas Smith is a researcher in English and Transdisciplinary Education and has taught in the United States, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
