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Education Still Under Siege
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Author : Stanley Aronowitz
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1993-08-30
Education Still Under Siege written by Stanley Aronowitz and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-30 with Education categories.
Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life. This revised edition of the 1985 best-seller speaks eloquently to the need to attend to ever-present inequalities of education in the light of new political correctness, technology, and curricula.
Education Under Siege
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Author : Peter Mortimore
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2013-09-23
Education Under Siege written by Peter Mortimore and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-23 with Education categories.
In Education under Siege, Peter Mortimore considers the UK education system as it is and as it might be. Concluding that the United Kingdom has some of the best teachers in the world but one of the most muddled systems, Mortimore proposes radical changes to help all British schools become good schools. He argues that the government should outlaw selection practices, integrate private schools into the state system, and establish processes to ensure that each school has effective teachers and a fair balance of students who learn easily and those who do not. In a concluding call to action, he asks readers who share his concerns to demand that politicians alter the course of education policy.
Education Under Siege
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Author : Stanley Aronowitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Education Under Siege written by Stanley Aronowitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Education categories.
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Public Education Under Siege
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Author : Michael B. Katz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-22
Public Education Under Siege written by Michael B. Katz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-22 with Education categories.
Public Education Under Siege argues for a democratic and egalitarian alternative to the test-driven, market-oriented core of current education reform. These short, jargon-free essays cover public policy, teacher unions, economic inequality, race, language diversity, parent involvement, and leadership.
Teachers Under Siege
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Author : Sandra Leaton Gray
language : en
Publisher: Trentham Books Limited
Release Date : 2006
Teachers Under Siege written by Sandra Leaton Gray and has been published by Trentham Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Teachers categories.
Examining the role of teachers in the knowledge-based economy, this book argues that they are being presented with an impossible task: they are expected to educate 'youth' within organisational structures that are outdated and frustrating. It is useful for students of education and teachers interested in their professional survival.
Pakistan Under Siege
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Author : Madiha Afzal
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2018-01-02
Pakistan Under Siege written by Madiha Afzal and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-02 with Political Science categories.
Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think? Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from a detached position—a top-down security perspective, that renders a one-dimensional picture of what is at its heart a complex, richly textured country of 200 million people. In this book, using rigorous analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews in schools and universities in Pakistan, historical narrative reporting, and her own intuitive understanding of the country, Madiha Afzal gives the full picture of Pakistan’s relationship with extremism. The author lays out Pakistanis’ own views on terrorist groups, on jihad, on religious minorities and non-Muslims, on America, and on their place in the world. The views are not radical at first glance, but are riddled with conspiracy theories. Afzal explains how the two pillars that define the Pakistani state—Islam and a paranoia about India—have led to a regressive form of Islamization in Pakistan’s narratives, laws, and curricula. These, in turn, have shaped its citizens’ attitudes. Afzal traces this outlook to Pakistan’s unique and tortured birth. She examines the rhetoric and the strategic actions of three actors in Pakistani politics—the military, the civilian governments, and the Islamist parties—and their relationships with militant groups. She shows how regressive Pakistani laws instituted in the 1980s worsened citizen attitudes and led to vigilante and mob violence. The author also explains that the educational regime has become a vital element in shaping citizens’ thinking. How many years one attends school, whether the school is public, private, or a madrassa, and what curricula is followed all affect Pakistanis’ attitudes about terrorism and the rest of the world. In the end, Afzal suggests how this beleaguered nation—one with seemingly insurmountable problems in governance and education—can change course.
Take Back Higher Education
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Author : H. Giroux
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-06-24
Take Back Higher Education written by H. Giroux and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-24 with Science categories.
At the beginning for the new millennium, higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, higher education increasingly is besieged by corporate, right-wing and conservative ideologies that want to decouple higher education from its legacy of educating students to be critical and autonomous citizens, imbued with democratic and public values. The greatest danger faced by higher education comes from the focus of global neo-liberalism and the return of educational apartheid. Through the power of racial backlash, the war on youth, deregulation, commercialism, and privatization, neo-liberalism wages a vicious assault on all of those public spheres and goods not controlled by the logic of market relations and profit margins. Take Back Higher Education argues that if higher education is going to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it will have to confront neo-liberalism, racism, and the shredding of the social contract.
Societies Under Siege
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Author : Lee Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-15
Societies Under Siege written by Lee Jones and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with Political Science categories.
Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, punish armed aggression, or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted by sanctions supposed to translate into political gain? What are the mechanisms by which sanctions operate - or fail to operate? This is the first comparative study of this vital question. Drawing on Gramscian state theory, Societies Under Siege provides a novel analytical framework to study how sanctions are mediated through the domestic political economy and state-society relations of target states and filter through into political outcomes - whether those sought by the states imposing sanctions or, as frequently occurs, unintended and even highly perverse consequences. Detailed case studies of sanctions aimed at regime change in three pivotal cases - South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar - are used to explore how different types of sanctions function across time and space. These case studies draw on extensive fieldwork interviews, archival documents and leaked diplomatic cables to provide a unique insight into how undemocratic regimes targeted by sanctions survive or fall.
No University Is An Island
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Author : Cary Nelson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-10
No University Is An Island written by Cary Nelson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Education categories.
This text offers a comprehensive account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. At once witty and devastating, it confronts these threats with frankness, then offers a prescription for higher education's renewal.
Childhood Under Siege
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Author : Joel Bakan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011
Childhood Under Siege written by Joel Bakan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online. America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning. And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments. Nelson Mandela once sagely remarked that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children." The problem today, as Joel Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult.