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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Beginning the Journey: Thinking About Our Thinking | |
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| Starting Points: Assumptions and Alternatives | |
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| Why Theory and Philosophy Matter: From the Abstract to the Practical | |
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| Developing a Personal Stance | |
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| Historical Possibilities: Traditional Goals | |
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| An Alternative Agenda: Critical Goals | |
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| The Why and How of Praxis | |
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| Note | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Understanding Our Own Thinking: Developing Critical Consciousness | |
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| Issues of Race | |
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| Issues of Gender and Sexual Orientation | |
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| The Complexity of Cultural Conditioning | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Expanding Our Thinking: Learning about "Other People's Children" | |
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| Who Are America's Schoolchildren? | |
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| Poverty, Race, and Schoolchildren | |
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| Other People's Children: Educational History and Legacies | |
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| Other People's Children: Current Realities | |
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| Summary and Implications | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Considering Destinations: Truth, Consequences, and the Critical Vision | |
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| In the Interest of Everyone But Kids: The Politics of Contemporary Educational Reform | |
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| Themes in National Political Rhetoric | |
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| Education as Workforce Preparation | |
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| Education Is Failing | |
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| Rhetoric and Realities | |
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| Why Produce a "Manufactured Crisis"? | |
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| Corporations on the Crisis Bandwagon | |
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| Corporations in the Schoolhouse | |
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| Staging for Twenty-First-Century Reforms | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Consequences of Contemporary Educational Reform: Winners and Losers | |
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| Standards and High-Stakes Testing | |
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| The Winners | |
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| The Losers | |
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| Moves Toward Privatization | |
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| The Winners | |
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| The Losers | |
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| Summary | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Critical Alternatives for Schools and Teachers | |
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| Critical Alternatives: Redefining Democracy and Democratic Goals | |
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| Critical Alternatives: Schooling for Participative Citizenship | |
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| Education as Critical Inquiry for Social Change | |
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| Education in Service to the Many | |
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| Critical Alternatives: Teachers Pursuing Social Justice | |
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| Teachers Who Understand Social Power Arrangements | |
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| Teachers Who Respect the Other | |
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| Teachers as Public Intellectuals | |
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| Teachers as Risk-Takers | |
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| Parting Thoughts | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Information and Allies for the Critical Educator | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |