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The first edition of Education Under Siege, called a major achievement that deserves serious, sustained attention by College English, is now substantially revised and updated to include educational developments such as multiculturalism, political correctness, America 2000, AIDS in the schools, microsocieties, and unified universal learning through technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the Melting Pot--Schooling in the Twenty-first Century Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse Curriculum Theory, Power, and Cultural Politics The Universities and the Question of Political Correctness Are We Having Fun Yet? Computers and the Future of Work and Play Multiculturalism under Siege in the Reagan/Bush Era Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

STANLEY ARONOWITZ is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written books of which Honor America, The Politics of Identity, and Science as Power are recent titles.

HENRY A. GIROUX is the Waterbury Chair Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University. He is series editor of Critical Studies in Education and Culture and the author of numerous titles in critical pedagogy.