Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World

by David E. Purpel and H. Svi Shapiro

This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. Readers are exposed to the thinking of some of the best and most insightful social and educational commentators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080584452X
• ISBN13: 9780805844528
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"