Title Schooling for humanity : when Big Brother isn't watching? / David O. Solmitz ; foreword by Kathleen Kesson

Published New York : Peter Lang, 2001

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Description xix, 244 pages ; 24 cm Series Counterpoints ; v. 178 Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 178 Contents 1. The Setting -- 2. Learning to Ask Questions and Seek Answers -- 3. Purposes of American Public Education: The Historical Conflict Between Democratic Pedagogy and Capitalist Domination in Public Education -- 4. Transnational Corporations and Global Economics Dominate American Education -- 5. Anti-Establishment, Yet Trying to Maintain Discipline -- 6. Dissidence Confronts the Status Quo -- 7. An Almost Democratic Classroom -- 8. Encounters With Controversy -- 9. Passion and Exposure to Diversity -- 10. Schooling for Humanity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Solmitz, David O., 1943- Critical pedagogy -- United States. Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States. Public schools -- Maine -- Madison. LC no. 00062975 ISBN 0820452076 paperback alkaline paper VOLUME 178

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