1st Edition

Losing Heart The Moral and Spiritual Miseducation of America's Children

By H. Svi Shapiro Copyright 2006
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

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 unequal, instrumental, consumerist, and self-oriented culture and a radically different vision for what... Read more
Contents: D. Purpel, Foreword. Preface. Education or Schooling? Crisis of Meaning. Human Nature, Human Possibility. In Search of Community. Banality of Evil. For You Were Strangers in Egypt. Educating for Peace. Tikkun Olam.

Biography

Shapiro, H. Svi