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Postmodern Education Politics, Culture and Social Criticism Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux |
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The first book to offer a systematic look at the significance of postmodernist ideas for education. This book offers and opinionated analysis of today's polemics surrounding the topic of education and society. Aronowitz and Giroux present a conceptual framework for charting the future directions educational theory and practice might take and continue the debate begun in their previous book, Education Under Siege, which was named one of the most significant books in education by the American Educational Studies Association in 1986. "In Postmodern Education Aronowitz and Giroux are architects of the imagination, presenting essays of political, social, and cultural criticism aimed at altering the ways we understand the existing social order and act to change the conditions of our lives." —Afterimage Stanley Aronowitz is distinguished professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Science as Power, The Jobless Future, The Crisis of Historical Materialism, and Paradigm Lost. 192 pages | 1990 |
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$18.50 paper