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

Name: Losing Heart The Moral and Spiritual Miseducation of America's Children
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ISBN: 9780805857221

ISBN-10: 0805857222

ISBN-13: 9780805857221

Edition: 2006

Authors: H. Svi Shapiro

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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 our schools should be about--a vision that focuses on education's role in supporting a more critically reflective, socially responsible, and compassionate culture. Federal and state legislation have propelled schools today in the direction of an increasingly test-driven, instrumental, and…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgements



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


Author Index


Subject Index