Against Schooling

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<p>In <em>Against Schooling,</em> Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where school districts have imposed testing, teachers must teach to test, and both teacher and student are robbed of their autonomy and creativity. The crisis extends to higher education, where all but a few elite institutions are becoming increasingly narrowly focused and vocational in their teaching. With education lacking opportunity for self-reflection on broad social and historical dynamics, Against Schooling asks "How will society be able to solve its most pressing problems?" Aronowitz proposes innovative approaches to get schools back on track.</p> Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part I: Education and Social Class, 1. How Class Works in education: A Memoir, 2. Against Schooling: education and Social Class, 3. The World turned Upside Down—Again, Part II: Higher Education or Higher Training?, 4. Higher Education as a Public Good, 5. Subaltern in Paradise, 6. Academic Unionism and the Future of Higher Education, 7. Should Academic Unions Get involved in Governance?, 8. The Decline of Labor Education, Part III: Toward Educational Renewal, 9. Gramsci and Education, 10. Paulo Freire’s Radical Democratic Humanism, References, Index
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