Can Education Change Society?

Name: Can Education Change Society?
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ISBN: 9780415875332

ISBN-10: 0415875331

ISBN-13: 9780415875332

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael W. Apple

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Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now. The question was perhaps put most succinctly early by the radical educator George Counts in 1932 when he asked "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?", challenging entire generations of educators to participate in, actually to lead, the reconstruction of society. Over 70 years later, celebrated educator, author and activist Michael Apple revisits Counts’ now iconic works, compares them to the…

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/23/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Can Education Change Society?



Paulo Freire and the Tasks of the Critical Scholar/Activist in Education



George Counts and the Politics of Radical Change



Du Bois, Woodson, and the Politics of Transformation



Keeping Transformations Alive: Learning From the "South"




Wal-Marting America: Social Change and Educational Action



Critical Education, Speaking the Truth, and Acting Back



Answering the Question: Education and Social Transformation


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